Dr. Frank P Ferraro
2021
This is historically the Age of Sennacherib in Assyria and as a great conqueror of the world at that time he had turned his attention to the west and had engaged in a 3 fold conquest of Egypt, Phoenicia and Philistea. It would seem that on his way to Egypt he passed into the Palestine area and attacked and was in the process of conquering all the fortified cities of Judah surrounding Jerusalem while Hezekiah the king of Judah ran to Egypt for help. In addition to trying to get help from Egypt against Assyria, Hezekiah sent tribute money as a bribe to Sennacherib to try to get him to NOT attack Jerusalem and neither of these worked. (2Kings 18:13-16) Our modern counterpart is the United States giving money to nations to get them to behave or be our friends in the world which also has not worked.
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