Definition: | Sennacherib = "Sin multiplied brothers" (Sin = the moon)
1) son of Sargon, father of Esarhaddon, and king of Assyria from
705-681 BC; attacked Judah during the reign of king Hezekiah
and Judah was delivered when in response to the prayer of
Hezekiah an angel smote 185,000 Assyrian soldiers
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