- verses
- 14
- first named
- 2 Kings 18:13
- last named
- Isaiah 37:38
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- tribe
- Mesopotamia
Description
Who was Sennacherib?
Sennacherib and Sargon were powerful Assyrian kings who significantly impacted the kingdom of Judah. Sargon II, mentioned in Isa.20.1, was the king of Assyria who conquered Ashdod, a Philistine city. This event occurred during the reign of King Ahaz of Judah and served as a warning of the impending Assyrian threat. Sennacherib, Sargon's son and successor, is more prominently featured in the biblical narrative (2Kings 18-19; 2Chronicles 32; Isaiah 36-37). He invaded Judah during the reign of King Hezekiah and besieged Jerusalem. Sennacherib demanded tribute from Hezekiah and threatened to destroy the city. Hezekiah prayed to God for deliverance, and the prophet Isaiah prophesied that God would defend Jerusalem. As a result, the Assyrian army was miraculously defeated, and Sennacherib returned to Nineveh, where he was later assassinated by his own sons. These accounts demonstrate God's power to protect His people and the fulfillment of prophetic words.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The 10 best-attested of 12 are drawn. All 12 are listed below.
Father of
Stands in the same events as
- LORD9 events
- Hezekiah5 events
- Nineveh4 events
- Lebanon3 events
- Egypt2 events
- Deliverance2 events
- Stream2 events
- Well2 events
- Esarhaddon2 events
- Adrammelech2 events
- Sharezer2 events
- Judah1 event
and 10 more, ordered by how many events they share.
Places
Where this happens
The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Sennacherib is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
14 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. Named in 2 Kings (4), 2 Chronicles (5) and Isaiah (5).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 14, across 3 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- 2 Kings 18Sennacherib attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.
- 2 Kings 19Sennacherib sent threats to Hezekiah, withdrew to Nineveh, and was later killed while worshiping in the temple of Nisroch.
- 2 Chronicles 32Sennacherib invaded Judah, besieged its cities, mocked the LORD, withdrew in disgrace, and was killed by some of his own sons.
- Isaiah 36Sennacherib attacked Judah’s fortified cities and sent the Rabshakeh to Jerusalem with a great army.
- Isaiah 37Sennacherib threatened Jerusalem, withdrew to Nineveh, and was put to the sword while worshiping in the temple of Nisroch.
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