{"id":66907,"date":"2019-12-14T23:18:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T21:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=66907"},"modified":"2023-07-10T21:42:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T18:42:41","slug":"when-egypt-saved-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/when-egypt-saved-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"When Egypt Saved Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[469,444,635],"acf":{"old_id":"66907","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":36147,"related_cahpter":"371","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Taharqa to the rescue!\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our chapter ends with the miraculous salvation of Jerusalem, followed (literarily) by the rapid death of Sennacherib. There are plenty of mundane reasons why the Assyrians failed to capture Jerusalem \u2013 many months of military campaigning, far from home, a plague that struck the camp (in verse 36 of today\u2019s chapter), the strong defenses of Jerusalem which Hezekiah constructed. And there is one more, mentioned in verse 9: the Egyptians: \u201cBut [the king of Assyria] learned that King Tirhakah of Nubia had come out to fight him.\u201d Technically,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taharqa\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taharqa<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was not yet king in 701 (he ascended the throne only in 690), but he clearly led the Egyptian forces that challenged the Assyrians. In<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/research.britishmuseum.org\/research\/collection_online\/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=295077&amp;page=1&amp;partId=1&amp;peoA=92851-3-18&amp;people=92851\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">his own account of this campaign<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Sennacherib mentions that he fought the Egyptians<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ge%27alya\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at Eltekeh<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the Shephelah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tirhakah\/Taharqa is called \u201cking of Nubia (Kush)\u201d in our chapter because the Twenty-Fifth dynasty, of which he was a part,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twenty-fifth_Dynasty_of_Egypt\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was Nubian in origin<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. So he would actually be king of Egypt, but his origins accompany him in his title in the Bible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We should not be surprised that the Egyptians came. Isaiah had criticized Hezekiah for making a treaty with them (Chapters 30 and 31), and the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>rab shaqeh<\/em> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">had mocked the Judeans for relying on them. But it turns out that they were true to their word, and did engage the Assyrians in battle in an effort to drive them back to Mesopotamia. While it seems clear that the Egyptians-Nubians did not defeat the Assyrians, there is no doubt that this battle added to the pressure on Sennacherib to get home quickly, especially as more Egyptian forces may have been on their way. In part, then, our chapter tells a story of the Egyptians saving Jerusalem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image: Granite sphinx of Taharqa, 25th Dynasty from a temple at Kawa. 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