Siege of Lachish

Siege of Lachish
Part of Sennacherib's campaign in the Levant

Assyrian siege-engine attacking the city wall of Lachish, part of the ascending assaulting wave. Detail of a wall relief dating back to the reign of Sennacherib, 700-692 BCE. From Nineveh, Iraq, currently housed in the British Museum.
Date701 BCE
Location
Lachish, Kingdom of Judah
Result
  • Assyrian victory
  • Lachish captured
Belligerents
Neo-Assyrian Empire Kingdom of Judah
Commanders and leaders
Sennacherib Unknown
Strength
Unknown Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown Heavy

The siege of Lachish was the Neo-Assyrian Empire's siege[1] and conquest of the town of Lachish in 701 BCE.[2] The siege is documented in several sources including the Hebrew Bible, Assyrian documents and in the Lachish relief, a well-preserved series of reliefs which once decorated the Assyrian king Sennacherib's palace at Nineveh.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ Garfinkel, Yosef; Carroll, Jon W.; Pytlik, Michael; Mumcuoglu, Madeleine (2021). "Constructing the Assyrian Siege Ramp at Lachish: Texts, Iconography, Archaeology and Photogrammetry". Oxford Journal of Archaeology. 40 (4): 417–439. doi:10.1111/ojoa.12231. ISSN 0262-5253. S2CID 239247575.
  2. ^ Walton, John H.; Matthews, Victor H.; Chavalas, Mark W. (2000-11-08). The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament. InterVarsity Press. ISBN 978-0-8308-1419-0.
  3. ^ The Illustrated Dictionary and Concordance of the Bible – Page 566 by Geoffrey Wigoder
  4. ^ Ussishkin, David (1990). "The Assyrian Attack on Lachish: The Archaeological Evidence from the Southwest Corner of the Site". Tel Aviv. 17 (1): 53–86. doi:10.1179/tav.1990.1990.1.53. ISSN 0334-4355.
  5. ^ Dalley, Stephanie (2017-05-18), Frahm, Eckart (ed.), "Assyrian Warfare", A Companion to Assyria (1 ed.), Wiley, pp. 522–533, doi:10.1002/9781118325216.ch26, ISBN 978-1-4443-3593-4, retrieved 2023-02-26