008 Booty from Lachish

Museum Description: Booty from Lachish

Room: 10/Case: None/Number: WA 124907-8

Scripture: 2 Kings 18:13

When the Israelites are mentioned in the Bible, what do you imagine?  As there are no pictures in the Bible, it would be up to our imagination where it not for the discovery of artefacts such as these.  Here we can actually see Israelites from the time of King Hezekiah.  Notice their distinctive headdresses.  This is not necessarily the headdress that Israelites would have actually worn.  Headdresses were used in ancient carvings in the same way we might use flags today - to denote different nations.  Carvings of people from each nation were shown with distinct and different headdresses.  Notice also in the background the fruit trees and vines depicted.  Lachish was evidently in a beautiful and fertile part of Israel, so it is no surprise Sennacherib decided to be based there while he was taunting King Hezekiah.