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Assyria Invades Judah

36 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign,[a] King Sennacherib of Assyria came to attack the fortified towns of Judah and conquered them. Then the king of Assyria sent his chief of staff[b] from Lachish with a huge army to confront King Hezekiah in Jerusalem. The Assyrians took up a position beside the aqueduct that feeds water into the upper pool, near the road leading to the field where cloth is washed.[c]

These are the officials who went out to meet with them: Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace administrator; Shebna the court secretary; and Joah son of Asaph, the royal historian.

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Footnotes

  1. 36:1 The fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign was 701 B.c.
  2. 36:2a Or the rabshakeh; also in 36:4, 11, 12, 22.
  3. 36:2b Or bleached.

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