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DEBATES IN BIBLE ARCHAEOLOGY

Alan Millard

The University of Liverpool

Sennacherib 704-681 B.C.

2 Kings 19: 35-37

‘And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord

went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an

hundred fourscore and five thousand; and when they arose

in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. So

Sennacherib, king of Assyria, departed and returned and

dwelt at Nineveh. … as he was worshipping, his sons

smote him with the sword ... And Esarhaddon his son

reigned in his stead.’

Tel Dan Stele, names

•(Hazael, king of Damascus

•[Jeho]ram, [king of] Israel

•[Ahaz]iah, (king of Judah) perhaps ‘[kin]g of the house of David’

Tel Dan stele, lines 8,9

mlk.ysr’l.wqtl[t..…ml] ‘king of Israel and I killed […..kin]

k.bytdwd.w’sm.[…....]

g of the house of David and I put[….]’

Ramesses II c. 1279-1213 B.C.

‘In the four hundred and eightieth year after the

Israelites had come out of Egypt in the fourth year of

Solomon’s reign….’ (1 Kings 6; 1)i.e. c. 966 B.C.

Merneptah 1213-1203 B.C.