Chapter 7 Jerusalem Under Siege — Judah’s Narrow Escape

The Bible calls it deliverance. Assyria called it siege warfare.
Chapter 7: Jerusalem Under Siege — Judah’s Narrow Escape unpacks one of the most dramatic survival stories in biblical history—and shows how power, not prayer, wrote the ending.

In 701 BCE, Assyria, the empire that crushed the northern kingdom of Israel, turned its war machine toward Judah. Fortress by fortress, it tore through the countryside. Only Jerusalem remained.

The Bible says an angel saved the city.
The archaeology says something else:

• Lachish was burned to the ground.

• Sennacherib’s own carvings show the battle.

• Jerusalem survived—but paid dearly to do so.

This chapter explores:

• The real reasons behind Hezekiah’s rebellion

• The engineering of Jerusalem’s Siloam Tunnel as a last-ditch survival move

• The contrast between Assyrian records and the Bible’s divine version

• The rise of Zion theology—the belief that Jerusalem could never fall

You’ll walk through the silent streets of a city under siege—no fire from heaven, no collapsing armies. Just fear, silence, and a desperate king who stripped gold from the temple to buy time.

Judah didn’t defeat empire.
It bought survival—and turned it into theology.