Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of text-figures
- Preface
- PART I ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA
- PART II THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN AND THE BLACK SEA
- 29 Israel and Judah from the coming of Assyrian domination until the fall of Samaria, and the struggle for independence in Judah (c. 750–700 B.C.)
- 30 Judah until the fall of Jerusalem (c. 700–586 B.C.)
- 31 The Babylonian Exile and the restoration of the Jews in Palestine (586–c. 500 B.C.)
- 32 Phoenicia and Phoenician colonization
- 33 Scythia and Thrace
- 34 Anatolia
- 35 Egypt: the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Dynasties
- Chronological Table
- Note on The Calendar
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Index
- Map 11: Phoenician and Punic sites in Spain
- Map 13: Scythia
- Map 14: Thrace
- References
30 - Judah until the fall of Jerusalem (c. 700–586 B.C.)
from PART II - THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN AND THE BLACK SEA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of text-figures
- Preface
- PART I ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA
- PART II THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN AND THE BLACK SEA
- 29 Israel and Judah from the coming of Assyrian domination until the fall of Samaria, and the struggle for independence in Judah (c. 750–700 B.C.)
- 30 Judah until the fall of Jerusalem (c. 700–586 B.C.)
- 31 The Babylonian Exile and the restoration of the Jews in Palestine (586–c. 500 B.C.)
- 32 Phoenicia and Phoenician colonization
- 33 Scythia and Thrace
- 34 Anatolia
- 35 Egypt: the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Dynasties
- Chronological Table
- Note on The Calendar
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Index
- Map 11: Phoenician and Punic sites in Spain
- Map 13: Scythia
- Map 14: Thrace
- References
Summary
HEZEKIAH'S LATER YEARS
Sennacherib failed to take Jerusalem in 701 B.C., and Judah remained an independent state, but the kingdom had been weakened, Sennacherib having laid waste, as he put it in monumental inscriptions on a bull colossus and a stone slab, ‘the wide district of Judah’. Pudu-ilu of Ammon, Kammusu-nadbi of Moab and Aiarammu of Edom had all escaped such devastation by paying tribute to Sennacherib without delay, and it seems likely that they now saw an opportunity to take advantage of the weakness of Judah. Levels II at Beersheba and VIII at Arad were destroyed at about this time, and though this might have been part of Sennacherib's operation, both cities lie rather far south of the area in which the Assyrians seem mainly to have conducted their campaign. It might well be that they mark an incursion of the Edomites, who indeed seem to have suffered an encroachment on the part of Judah earlier in Hezekiah's reign (I Chron. 4:41–3). That the Edomites were a threat in this area at about this time is suggested by a letter found in level VIII at Arad. This appears to have been sent by two officers, Gemariah and Nehemiah, in a military outpost to their superior Malkiah, presumably in Arad, and it states that the king should know that, thanks to trouble from the Edomites, they have been unable to send something (the text at that point is damaged). If the destruction of level VIII was the result of Edomite action this could have been a presage of the coming threat to the weakened state.
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- The Cambridge Ancient History , pp. 371 - 409Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992