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by Isaiah, and Assyrian forces razed Damascus in 732 B.C. and conquered Samaria in 722 B.C. Isaiah worked with King Hezekiah to restore peace and order to the nation and gave him key support when Sennacherib besieged Jerusalem in 701 B.C. in retaliation for Hezekiah’s anti-Assyrian policies (Isa 36–38; cf. 2 Kgs 18:13–20:19). The siege was broken, as prophesied, when “the angel of the LORD went forth, and slew a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early
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