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Sennacherib
4 quotes
“(Hezekiah) himself, like a caged bird, I shut up in Jerusalem, his royal city.”
Sennacherib (745–681 BC) said by 681 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From the Taylor prism, Column 3. Adapted from Luckenbill (1924), pp. 27-31
“Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.”
Sennacherib (745–681 BC) said by 681 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.”
Sennacherib (745–681 BC) said by 681 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold”
Sennacherib (745–681 BC) said by 681 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Lord Byron