“The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold”
Lord Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib
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Sin-ahhe-eriba war als Sohn Sargons II. von 705 bis 680 v. Chr. assyrischer König.

“The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold”
Lord Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib
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“(Hezekiah) himself, like a caged bird, I shut up in Jerusalem, his royal city.”
From the Taylor prism http://www.kchanson.com/ANCDOCS/meso/sennprism3.html