JERUSALEM (BP) – Assyria’s King Sennacherib was planning to capture Judah. Somehow, King Hezekiah had workers dig a tunnel through solid rock and divert Judah’s water supply to the Pool
Historian Mario Liverani, in his 2013 book The Ancient Near East, estimates that the citys population under Sennacherib was around 100,000.Assyrian royal inscriptions often stress the violent side of empire, such as when Ashurbanipal reports that he chained a rebel at the citadel of Nineveh together with a bear and a dog thankfully providing no further details.
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