Discovery of a Biblical Angelic Battle and 185,000 Dead Unearthed in Jerusalem

Jun 19, 2024

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Biblical Discovery of an ancient military base may shed light on a battleground for God's army against Assyrian soldiers who sought to conquer the Holy Land approximately 2,700 years ago. "A newly discovered archaeological site may provide evidence of Biblical truth.

Researchers in Jerusalem have uncovered an ancient military base that may provide clues of a battle ground for God’s army against Assyrian soldiers who came to conquer the Holy Land around 2,700 years ago, per a Sunday report in the Daily Mail. As the Bible story goes, an angel of the Lord is said to have descended on the invading troops and killed 185,000 soldiers in a night."

The article goes on to say,

"The Assyrian Empire reigned from 1,365 to 609 BC, led by King Sennacherib’s campaign to control all routes across the Syrian Desert that led to the Mediterranean Sea. A previously known carving on the stone walls of Sennacherib’s palace depicts the conquest of Lachish, a city 42 miles south of Jerusalem, including an illustration of a military base floor plan. With this ancient engraving, archaeologist Stephen Compton was able to cross-reference aerial photos of the alleged area — part of a historic taken site in Israel called Ammunition Hill — in 1910 to discover the maps matched up....The drawings pointed to ruins of a perimeter wall and buried pottery shards revealed to be at least roughly 2,600 years old, according to Copton’s analysis. The site is now believed to have been abandoned after Sennacherib’s invasion.

Cast of a rock relief of Sennacherib from the foot of Mount Judi, near Cizre — Cast of a rock relief of Sennacherib

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Clues of bloody Biblical battle between angel of God and 185K invading soldiers uncovered in Jerusalem: new research (msn.com )

The Biblical references to the angelic siege on the Assyrians are as follows.

(2 Kings 19:35-36) "And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. {36} So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh."

(Isaiah 37:36-37) "Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. {37} ¶ So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh."

(2 Chronicles 32:21-23) "And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword. {22} Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all other, and guided them on every side. {23} And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth."