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National Geographic : 1960 Dec
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his artist to commemorate the city's fall in stone and made Lachish his headquarters until he finished the Judean war. Hezekiah perforce sued for peace. The Second Book of the Kings (18: 14-16) quotes his entreaty: "And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto [taxed] Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king's house. At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord... and gave it to the king of Assyria." Seldom has archeology so thoroughly but tressed Biblical history. Sennacherib's an nals parallel II Kings' account almost exactly, and J. L. Starkey's excavations of Lachish in the 1930's revealed a double-walled city that Sennacherib's sculptor portrayed even to specific towers. The painting on the following pages com bines information from all these sources. 835
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