DID YOU KNOW?

In his own inscription about the tribute King Hezekiah of Judah sent him, what does the Assyrian king Sennacherib call Nineveh?

The answer

My royal city. Sennacherib's inscription says Hezekiah sent tribute "after my departure to Nineveh, my royal city," including 30 talents of gold and 800 talents of silver.

Why it’s interesting

2 Kings 18:13-14 tells the same payment from Judah's side. It also has thirty talents of gold, but its silver is three hundred talents, not eight hundred.

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