[284] It is the third warlike enterprise of Sennacherib, which for the following reasons cannot be placed earlier than 702 B.C. The cylinder Bellino dates from the seventh month of the third year of Sennacherib, _i.e._ from the year 703 / 702; it concludes with the subjugation of Ellip and the tribute of the Medes. Sennacherib, therefore, may have first marched to Syria in the year 701 B.C. The inscription of the bulls narrates this campaign, which extends to the establishment of Assurnadin in Babylon; so the cylinder Smith, which dates from the year 697 B.C. Hence, as the year of Hezekiah's accession is fixed for the year 728 B.C. (p. 16, _n._), the siege of Jerusalem does not fall in the fourteenth year of Hezekiah, in which the Books of Kings place it, but in the twenty-eighth year. [285] I combine these three accounts, which differ but little from each other. [286] Cylinder Smith, "Disc." p. 304. [287] G. Smith, "Disc." p. 304. [288] Inscription of the bulls in E. Schrader, "K. A. T." l. 31, s. 187. [289] E. Schrader, "K. A. T." 171 ff. G. Smith, "Disc." p. 303 ff. Rodwell, "Records of the Past," 7, 61 ff. [290] Isa. xxii. 9, 10, 11. [291] 2 Kings xviii. 13 ff.; 2 Kings xix. 8-13; Isa. xxxvi., xxxvii.; 2 Chron. xxxii. [292] Brandis, "Münzwesen," s. 98. [293] Room 36, in Layard. [294] E. Schrader, "K. A. T." s. 170. [295] Isa. i. 25. [296] Isa. xxx. 19. [297] Isa. ii. 12-22. [298] Isa. xix. 22. [299] Isa. xix. 25. [300] Isa. ii. 3, 4. [301] Isa. xi. 6-8; cf. xxv. 6-12; xxxv. 5-10. The ideas of the happy future are not quite consistent in Isaiah. If in one place he extends the peace of the world down to the beasts of prey, in others he represents the restored kingdom of David, the united Ephraim and Judah, as "oppressing their oppressors." "Judah will be a terror for Egypt" (xix. 17), and the Israelites will "flee to the sea on the shoulders of the Philistines: together they will plunder the sons of the East, and subjugate Edom, Moab, and Ammon" (xi. 14). In the same way the new king of the race of David, who will then rule, appears to him at one time gifted with the strength of David, and is again described as participating in the Divine nature, and passes into a general picture of the happy future. [302] Isa. xxvii. 8. [303] Isa. x. 5, 6. [304] Isa. x. 7-18. [305] Isa. xxxiii. 1. [306] Isa. x. 24-27. [307] 2 Kings xix. 25-33; Isa. xxxvi., xxxvii. 1-34. [308] Isa. xiv. 24-27. [309] Isa. xvii. 12-14. [310] In Ménant, "Annal." p. 231. [311] 2 Kings xix. 35, 36. [312] 2 Kings xviii. 4. [313] Herod. 2, 141. CHAPTER VII. ESARHADDON.