Sennacherib's own account

Sennacherib's annals say he shut Hezekiah up in Jerusalem "like a bird in a cage", and do not claim the city was taken.

The mechanism

THE SAME SIEGE FROM THE OTHER SIDE

How it was checked

• EvidenceT7 PRIMARY DOCUMENT / MEASUREMENT; Status: ADDED 2026-09-18
• Letter eraTHE PROPHETS AND THE ROAD 776 BC to 4 BC
• Plate — The Oriental Institute Prism of Sennacherib, Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago (a twin of the Taylor Prism) · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Oriental_Institute_Prism_of_Sennacherib.jpg
• SourcesINSCRIPTION — Sennacherib's annals, the Taylor Prism (British Museum) and its twins