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Title: A dictionary of religious knowledge (electronic resource): for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922 Conant, Thomas Jefferson, 1802-1891
Subjects: Theology Religion
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library

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ity, the most remarkable of whichis an excavation cut through the solid rock,extending to upward of one thousand yardsin length, supposed to have belonged tothe approach from the sea just mentioned.(Acts xiii., 4. J Sennacherib was the son and successorof Sargon as king of Assyria, B.C. 702. Hisname is thought to signify moons add broth-ers —an indication that lie was not the eldestson. The early part of his reign was markedby a series of victories in Phoenicia, Philistia,and Egypt. He then marched into Judea,and came up against all the fenced citiesof Judah and took them.2 He exacted anenormous tribute from Hezekiah (q. v.), thenking of Judah. Sennacheribs own accountof this transaction has been found on an-cient pieces of sculpture recently discoveredin Nineveh. It is not easy to reconcile thej chronology of Scripture with that of thesemonuments, and various solutions of thisdifficulty have been proposed, the simplest; i Isa. xxxiv.—a 2 Kings jevuT^Is. SENNACHEKIB 861 SEPTUAGINT
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of which is to suppose an error of the copy-ist in the Scriptural account. In consequence of the revolt of Hezekiah,Sennacherib made a second invasion intoJudah, and laid siege to Jerusalem. Thenoccurred the remarkable destruction of hisarmy of a hundred and eighty-five thousandmen in a single night by the Angel of theLord.1 The Assyrian camp was broken up,1 2 Kings xix., 3B. and the hitherto victorious king fled to hisown capital. No record of this annihila-tion of his army is found in the monumentalannals of Sennacherib. He was not deter-red, however, from engaging in other wars,in which he seems still to have been vic-torious, though he thenceforward carefullyavoided Palestine. No monumental infor-mation has been found reaching beyond hiseighth year. His reign lasted twenty-twoyears, and of his death nothing is knownbeyond the brief Scripture statement that as he was worshiping in the house of Nis-roch his god, Adram-melech and Sharezerhis sons smote him with the sword; andthey esc

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