Sennacherib's siege of Jerusalem

Sennacherib besieges Jerusalem. His own prism never claims the city.

In plain words

Assyria's Sennacherib besieges Jerusalem, and his own victory prism never claims to have taken it. That silence is a hostile witness: the one admission a boast has no reason to make.

The mechanism

HOSTILE WITNESS — the enemy's victory monument omits the victory, which is the one admission a triumphal inscription has no reason to make

Scripture

2 Kings 18–19

How it was checked

• EvidenceT6 PHYSICAL / MANUSCRIPT; Status: COMMITTED
• Letter eraTHE PROPHETS AND THE ROAD 776 BC to 4 BC
• Plate — Gustave Dore, "The Angel Decimates Sennacherib's Army," La Sainte Bible (Tours, 1866) · National Library of Poland · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angel_decimates_Sennacherib%27s_army_(89398167).jpg
• SourcesARCHAEOLOGY — the Taylor and Sennacherib prisms