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THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: THE MAKING OF A RELIGION -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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It probably hoped to play an important role in the region, but its fate was already sealed.
[Dominique Charpin, Assyriologist -- EPHE] After the fall of the kingdom in the north, only one buffer state remained between Assyria and Egypt: the TINY STATE of Judah. The people of Judah wavered between the idea that they should submit to the Assyrians, and the idea that they could remain independent with the support of Egypt.
At some point they went too far, and Sennacherib Sargon's son, decided to put an end to the situation.
It was 701 B.C. The new Assyrian king, Senacherib, marched on Judah at the head of a huge army.
When they reached Lachish, the second largest city of the kingdom, they laid siege to it.
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