Editing Hezekiah (section)

===Battle with Sennacherib's army===
{{main|Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem}}
[[File:Peter Paul Rubens 082.jpg|thumb|''[[The Defeat of Sennacherib]]'', oil on panel by [[Peter Paul Rubens]], seventeenth century]]
During the [[Assyrian siege of Jerusalem]], the Bible claims that great losses were inflicted upon the Assyrian army, which Sennacherib's inscriptions do not mention. As [[Jack Finegan]] comments: "In view of the general note of boasting which pervades the inscriptions of the Assyrian kings, ... it is hardly to be expected that Sennacherib would record such a defeat."<ref>See ''Light From the Ancient Past'', 1959, p. 213</ref> The version of the matter that Sennacherib presents, as found inscribed on what is known as the [[Sennacherib's Annals|Sennacherib Prism]] preserved in the [[University of Chicago Oriental Institute]], in part says: "As to Hezekiah, the Jew, he did not submit to my yoke ... Hezekiah himself ... did send me, later, to Nineveh, my lordly city, together with 30 talents of gold, 800 talents of silver, ..."<ref>''Ancient Near Eastern Texts'', p. 288</ref>

[[Herodotus]] mentions the [[Military history of the Neo-Assyrian Empire|Assyrian army]] of Sennacherib being overrun by mice when attacking Egypt.<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2707/2707-h/2707-h.htm The History Of Herodotus], Book 2, Verse 141</ref> [[Josephus]] gives a quote from [[Berossus]] that is quite close to the Biblical account.<ref>Flavius Josephus, ''[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/josephus/ant-10.html Antiquities of the Jews]'', Book 10, chapter 1, section 5</ref>