the same campaign by the Assyrian king is, from the standpoint of Old Testament history, perhaps the most interesting historical inscription left by an Assyrian ruler. It is found in the so-called Taylor Cylinder,[15] column 2, line 34, to column 3, line 41. The most interesting portion reads: To the city of Ekron I went; the governors [and] princes, who had committed a transgression, I killed and bound their corpses on poles around the city. The inhabitants of the city, who had committed sin and evil, I counted as spoil; to the rest of them who had committed no sin and wrong, who had no guilt, I spoke peace. Padi their king, I brought forth from the city of Jerusalem; upon the throne of lordship over them I placed him. The tribute of my lordship I laid upon him. But Hezekiah of Judah, who had not submitted to my yoke, I besieged 46 of his strong cities, fortresses, and small cities of their environs, without number, [and] by the battering of rams and the assault of engines, by the attack of foot soldiers, mines, breaches, and axes, I besieged, I took them; 200,150 men, young [and] old, male and female, horses, mules, asses, camels, oxen and sheep without number I brought out from them, I counted them as spoil. [Hezekiah] himself I shut up like a caged bird in Jerusalem {139} his royal city; the walls I fortified against him [and] whosoever came out of the gates of the city, I turned back. His cities, which I had plundered, I separated from his land and gave them to Mitinti, king of Ashdod, to Padi, king of Ekron, and to Sil-Bel, king of Gaza, and [thus] diminished his territory. To the former tribute, paid yearly, I added the tribute and presents of my lordship and laid that upon him. Hezekiah himself was overwhelmed by the fear of the brightness of my lordship; the Arabians and his other faithful warriors whom, as a defense for Jerusalem his royal city he had brought in, fell into fear. With 30 talents of gold [and] 800 talents of silver, precious stones, _gukhli daggassi_ (?), large lapis lazuli, couches of ivory, thrones of ivory, ivory, _usu_ wood, box wood (?), of every kind, a heavy treasure, and his daughters, his women of the palace, the young men and young women, to Nineveh, the city of my lordship, I caused to be brought after me, and he sent his ambassadors, to give tribute and to pay homage.