Siege of Lachish

Siege of Lachish

The Siege of Lachish is documented in great detail in biblical sources, in Assyrian documents and in its outstanding representation in a series of reliefs which decorated Sennacherib's palace at Nineveh. [The Illustrated Dictionary and Concordance of the Bible - Page 566 by Geoffrey Wigoder] The city was captured by the Assyrians, its inhabitants led into captivity and the leaders of Lachish tortured to death. Lachish was abandoned, but resettled after the return from Babylonia.

Babylonian reliefs portraying the siege of Lachish clearly show battering rams attacking the vulnerable parts of the city. [Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible - Page 157by David Noel Freedman]

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