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The Babylonian Empire
He sent the following letter to Hezekiah, king of Judah:
A reminder of why this
You might wonder why we’d spend so
is important!
much time studying the geography of 2 Chronicles 32: 13-14
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the Bible or the archaeological “Do you not know what I and my predecessors have done to
discoveries that have been made in all the peoples of the other lands? Were the gods of those
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Israel, Egypt, Iraq and southern Europe. nations ever able to deliver their land from my hand? Who of
all the gods of these nations that my predecessors destroyed
No other religious book offers us so has been able to save his people from me? How then can your
much information that can be verified god deliver you from my hand?
outside of its pages. In thousands of
places, the Bible offers us descriptions Sennacherib continued to taunt Judah in verses 16-19:
of the land, historical events, and 16
international leaders and details Sennacherib’s officers spoke further against the LORD God and
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about other cultures. against his servant Hezekiah. The king also wrote
letters ridiculing the LORD, the God of Israel, and saying this
When archaeologists against him: “Just as the gods of the peoples of the other lands
discovered this clay did not rescue their people from my hand, so the god of
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prism around 1830 in Hezekiah will not rescue his people from my hand.” Then they
ancient Nineveh, called out in Hebrew to the people of Jerusalem who were on
the Assyrian history the wall, to terrify them and make them afraid in order to
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recorded on it capture the city. They
described the siege of spoke about the God of
Jerusalem. Jerusalem as they did about
the gods of the other
peoples of the world—the
work of human hands.
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