The scriptures quickly bring us to Sennacherib's stand at the city-walls of Jerusalem. Ancient documents, including a sculpture from Sennacherib's palace in Nineveh, now in the British Museum, portrays his siege and capture of Lachish. Other documents describe Sennacherib boasting to have conquered forty-six of Judah's strong cities, walled forts and countless small villages in their vicinity.
When Sennacherib arrives at Jerusalem, Hezekiah truly is shut up like a bird in a cage.
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