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LACHISH, Besieged by Sennacherib
2 Kings 18:13-17
13. Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.
14. Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to LACHISH, saying, "I have offended you. Return from me. That which you put on me, I will bear." The king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
15. Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in The LORD's house, and in the treasures of the king's house.
16. At that time, Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of The LORD's temple, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
17. The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from LACHISH to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.
2 Kings 19:8
So Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he had departed from LACHISH.
2 Chronicles 32:9
After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem, (now he was before LACHISH, and all his power with him), to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah who were at Jerusalem, saying,