The siege of Lachish is the name given to the Assyrian siege and conquest of the Judean town of Lachish in 701 BCE The siege is documented in several sources including the Hebrew Bible as well as in Assyrian documents and in a well-preserved series of reliefs which once decorated the Assyrian king Sennacherib's palace at Nineveh.
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