Bible Explorer · Event · 701 BC
Assyrian king Sennacherib surrounds Jerusalem and taunts the Lord through the Rabshakeh; King Hezekiah lays the blasphemous letter before the Lord, Isaiah prophesies deliverance, and the angel of the Lord strikes down 185,000 Assyrian soldiers in a single night.
Date: 701 BC · Note: Climactic confrontation between the Neo-Assyrian Empire and the Kingdom of Judah.
2 Kings 18:13-19:37, Isaiah 36:1-37:38