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Sennacherib was the Assyrian king who marched on Judah in the days of Hezekiah, and his name turns up in Greek, biblical and Atlantis-related pages alike. These are the places where I follow him.
The march on Egypt
On Account of Sethos Herodotus sets the Assyrian king against the priest-king of Egypt:
In his reign, Sennacherib king of the Arabians and Assyrians marched a great army against Egypt
Herodotus, Histories
In Herodotus’s account the warrior class refuses to help Sethos, the king prays in the sanctuary, and field mice devour the quivers, bowstrings and shield handles of the enemy at Pelusium.
Hezekiah and the temple of Nisroch
On King Hezekiah reigned from approximately 715 to 686 BCE, remembered for his religious reforms the Assyrian invasion under Sennacherib is the pressure behind Hezekiah’s drive for national unity through religious cohesion. The origin of Nimrod and The Bible: Blend and unify ‘the Gods’ into One both bring in Nisroch; the Nimrod page tells how Sennacherib was assassinated by his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer in the temple of Nisroch, likely a scribal error for Nimrod. EL Elyon/Elyoni and Chronological Nations and Tribes also mention him. On The Assyrians: Nineveh, the Sacred Tree and the Winged Circle the pressure of Sargon II and Sennacherib pushes Judah to unite around one temple, and on Mariana Giovino, The Assyrian Sacred Tree (2007), Her Findings Giovino notes that his palace at Nineveh had been at least partly excavated by 1853.
The Tokhari on the monuments
On The Bronze Age in Europe Ignatius Donnelly points to a figure of one of the Tokhari of the time of Sennacherib on the Assyrian monuments, linking them to the sea raiders who attacked Egypt.
Related pages
- Account of Sethos
- King Hezekiah reigned from approximately 715 to 686 BCE, remembered for his religious reforms
- The origin of Nimrod
- The Bible: Blend and unify ‘the Gods’ into One
- EL Elyon/Elyoni
- Chronological Nations and Tribes
- The Bronze Age in Europe
- The Assyrians: Nineveh, the Sacred Tree and the Winged Circle
- Mariana Giovino, The Assyrian Sacred Tree (2007), Her Findings
For every page I tagged with Sennacherib, see the Sennacherib tag archive.
