According to the Daily Mail, researchers have discovered an ancient military base that may support a biblical account of God’s angels defending Jerusalem from an Assyrian invasion.
The story in the Bible describes how an angel intervened to stop an army of Assyrian soldiers from conquering the Holy Land around 2,700 years ago, reportedly killing 185,000 soldiers in a single night.
Until now, there has been no archaeological evidence confirming this event or the battle.
However, archaeologist Stephen Compton claims to have found compelling evidence using modern mapping techniques, suggesting that this significant confrontation did take place.
According to the press release:
A peer-reviewed paper in the prestigious journal Near Eastern Archaeology reports the first-ever discoveries of ancient Assyrian military camps. Created circa 700 BC during military conquests across the Middle East, they mark the expansion of the Assyrian Empire, which became the prototype for the subsequent Persian, Greek, and Roman empires.
The initial discovery came from a scene carved into the stone walls of the Assyrian King Sennacherib’s palace commemorating his conquest of Lachish, a city to the south of Jerusalem. Matching the landscape in this image to features of the actual landscape (using early aerial photographs of Lachish prior to modern development) created a virtual map to the site of Sennacherib’s camp. This led to ruins similar in size and shape to the camp in Sennacherib’s relief.
An archaeological survey of the site found no evidence of human habitation for 2600 years, followed by pottery sherds from the exact time of Sennacherib’s invasion of Lachish, after which it was again abandoned for centuries. Moreover, the ancient Arabic name for the ruins was Khirbet al Mudawwara, “The Ruins of the Camp of the Invading Ruler.”
According to Britannica, the Assyrians, an ancient civilization from Mesopotamia, established a powerful empire in the Near East.
They were often portrayed as formidable and merciless conquerors who resided in present-day northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey.
Sennacherib reigned as the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 705 BC until his passing in 681 BC.
The stories in the Bible, specifically Isaiah 37:36-38, 2 Kings 19:35, and 2 Chronicles 32:21, recount how the Assyrian soldiers were defeated on the verge of their assault on Jerusalem.
Isaiah 37:36-38 (New International Version)
Then the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies! So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king.
Below are the pictures from the peer-reviewed paper, The Trail of Sennacherib’s Siege Camps, by Stephen C. Compton.
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This is interesting but I don’t need physical proof that what the Bible says about what happened is truth. In the OT, the Lord of the Armies is Jesus Christ before His incarnation. The Angel of the Lord is Jesus Christ. He is the one who wiped out the Army of Sennacherib.