Scripture: 2 Kings 18:14, 17; 2 Chronicles 32:9
Sennacherib besieges Lachish and sends his officials from there to Jerusalem.
Sennacherib's palace at Nineveh, excavated by Layard in the 1840s, held wall reliefs showing the siege and capture of Lachish, now in the British Museum. At Lachish itself, James Starkey (1932–38) and David Ussishkin (1973–94) uncovered the Assyrian siege ramp, the Judean counter-ramp, arrowheads and sling stones in the Level III destruction.
Tel Lachish, IsraelView on OpenStreetMap
