Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:
(not the first-born). Son and successor of Sargon, king of Assyria, B. C. 702-680. He extended his conquests to the Mediterranean and to Egypt (2 Kings 18:13-37; 19). Most powerful and magnificent of eastern sovereigns (Isa. 36, 37). He made Nineveh his capital and adorned it with many palaces and public structures. His monuments have been found in many places, and a record of his arrival in Egypt has been unearthed close by an inscription of Rameses the Great.
Concise Bible Dictionary:
Son and successor of Sargon, king of Assyria. He invaded Syria and Palestine in the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign. Hezekiah owned that he had offended, and paid to him a tribute of three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. Sennacherib has left an account of this on a clay tablet. He says he captured forty-six fenced cities, and the fortresses and villages round about them belonging to Hezekiah the Jew, and carried away 200,150 souls, and horses, mules, asses, camels, oxen, and sheep without number. He shut up Hezekiah in his house at Jerusalem like a bird in a cage (compare 2 Kings 18:13-16; 2 Chron. 32:1-8).
On Sennacherib’s second invasion, he sent insulting and impious messages to Hezekiah, who apparently was again trusting in Egypt. But an angel of God destroyed the Assyrian army. Of course the monuments say nothing of this. The king returned to Assyria, and did not venture to invade Palestine again. He was eventually murdered by two of his sons, and Esar-haddon, another son, succeeded him (2 Kings 18:17-37; 2 Kings 19:1-37; 2 Chron. 32:9-22; Isa. 36-37). Apparently Sennacherib was co-regent with Sargon in B.C. 714 when he invaded Judaea the first time; he reigned alone from B.C. 705 to 681.
Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:
Transliteration:
Cancheriyb
Meaning:
of foreign origin; Sancherib, an Assyrian king
Jackson’s Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names:
the thorn laid waste
Potts’ Bible Proper Names:
Devastation by an enemy; bush of destruction; sin has multiplied brethren: an Assyrian king, 2 Kings 18:13. {Hostis vastitas}
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