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The Destruction of Sennacherib
"The Destruction of Sennacherib"〔For full text, see (Englishhistory.net ). Retrieved on 6 December 2008.〕 is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1815 in his Hebrew Melodies. It is based on an event from the campaign by Assyrian king Sennacherib to capture Jerusalem, as described in the Bible (2 Kings 18–19). The rhythm of the poem has a feel of the beat of a galloping horse's hooves (an anapestic tetrameter) as the Assyrian rides into battle.
==Story==
The poem relates the Biblical version of Sennacherib's attempted siege of Jerusalem, and takes place in one night. At sunset the huge Assyrian army was bearing down upon the unnamed Jerusalem "like the wolf on the fold". Overnight, the Angel of Death "breathed on the face of the foe", and by morning most of the Assyrian army had died, mysteriously, in their sleep. The poem describes the dead soldiers and their horses, and then touches, briefly, on the grief of the Assyrian widows before concluding that, "The might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord."
The poem is faithful to the Biblical account, which claims that 185,000 Assyrians died; however, the Assyrian chronicles, giving Sennacherib's own version of the events, describe the campaign as a success, noting that Jerusalem offered tribute. The Chronicles do not mention any significant loss of Assyrian life.〔http://www.kchanson.com/ANCDOCS/meso/sennprism1.html〕 What really occurred is still a fiercely debated topic among historians.
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