At least according to one of my professors, it is Sennacherib's invasion of Judah, and his attack on Jerusalem in 701 (according to Sennacherib's Prism). We have archaeological evidence in the writings of Sennacherib, and archaeological evidence in Lachish, as well as three versions in the Bible. It also includes one of the most remarkable, God-centered prayers in the Bible, Hezekiah's prayer in 2 Kings 19:15-19. Sennacherib boasted that he has Hezekiah shut up "like a bird in a cage." To paraphrase Churchill, that's some bird, and its song has made quite an echo throughout history.
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