Marduk-apla-iddina II, Babylonian King Who Possibly Allied with King Hezekiah
Marduk-apla-iddina II, a minor Babylonian king, appears briefly in the Bible. He was a sufficiently strong enough leader to rule the independent city-state of Babylon in opposition to Assyria, the superpower of the day. He seized control of Babylon in 722 or 721 BC...
Sennacherib, Assyrian King Who Attacked King Hezekiah in Jerusalem
Sennacherib was an Assyrian king who is best known in the Bible for losing 185,000 soldiers in his failed attempt to conquer Jerusalem. He was a contemporary of King Hezekiah of the Kingdom of Judah, the prophet Isaiah and the Egyptian Pharaoh Tirhaqa, also...
