Talk:Sennacherib
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sennacherib was a fine man who deserved every opportunity that was granted to him, cheers!
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[edit] Detailed analysis
THIS SECTION IS HOPELESSLY BIASED TOWARDS THE FUNDAMENTALIST POINT OF VIEW. ANGELS DO NOT EXIST. AND ARE CERTAINLY NOT REGARDED BY ANYTHING LIKE A MAJORITY AS A FACT. It also completely ignores the fact that the surviving Assyrian records, unlike the surviving septuagint and masoretic text manuscripts, date from the time (they are contemporary stone carvings), not 700 years later, and present a much more plausible account. So I have moved it to the talk page below
-agreed, and I changed the POV point that Assyrian kings were trying to cover up history to a statement that isn't mere POV. If Assyrians were trying to cover up history, it is just as likely that the Jewish writers of the Ezra and Nehemiah were as well.
The neutrality of this section is disputed.
- Sennacherib's first act was to break up the powerful combination of princes who were in league against him, among whom was Hezekiah, who had entered into an alliance with Egypt. Sennacherib accordingly led a very powerful army (reportedly 200,000 men in size) into Judah, and devastated the land on every side, taking and destroying many cities (2 Kings 18:13-16; compare Isaiah 22, 24, 29, and 2 Chronicles 32:1-8).
- (See Isa. 22:1-13 for a description of the feelings of the inhabitants of Jerusalem at such a crisis.)
- Hezekiah was not disposed to become an Assyrian vassal. He accordingly at once sought help from Egypt (2 Kings 18:20-24). Sennacherib, hearing of this, marched a second time into Judah (2 Kings 18:17, 37; 19; 2 Chr. 32:9-23; Isa. 36:2-22. Isa. 37:25 should be rendered "dried up all the Nile-arms of Matsor", i.e., of Egypt, so called from the "Matsor" or great fortification across the isthmus of Suez, that protected it from invasions from the east). Sennacherib sent envoys to try to persuade Hezekiah to surrender, but in vain. He next sent a threatening letter (2 Kings 19:10-14), which Hezekiah carried into the temple and spread before the Lord. Isaiah again brought an encouraging message to the pious king (2 Kings 19:20-34). "In that night" the angel of the Lord went forth and smote the camp of the Assyrians. In the morning, "behold, they were all dead corpses". The Assyrian army was annihilated.
- Sennacherib did not campaign again against Jerusalem. He was murdered by two of his own sons (Adrammelech and Sharezer), and was succeeded by another son, Esarhaddon (681 BC), after a reign of twenty-four years.
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the debate was don't move. —Nightstallion (?) 07:59, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Requested move
Sennacherib → Sin-ahhe-eriba – Sennacherib is what the bible calls him, but his real name, as recorded by himself, and other Akkadian records, including stone carvings from his time, and preserved in the British Museum, is Sin-ahhe-eriba.
[edit] Voting
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- Oppose: the current name is far more familiar to most readers, because of the Bible. Jonathunder 09:01, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose: Wikipedia policy is clear about using the English spelling of the name for the article title, not the native name, if it is different. That's why we don't have articles titled Nabu-kudurri-utsur, Sharru-kin, Deutschland, et al, unless they are redirects. ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 14:23, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose per Wikipedia naming convention. I've made Sin-ahhe-eriba a redirect. Rd232 talk 16:25, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
[edit] Table of successors
The story begins by saying that Sargon II was the predecessor and father of Senacherib but the table at the bottom makes that Adad-nirari III (wrongly I think)
