SENNACHERIB PRISM: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT.

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SENNACHERIB PRISM: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT.

The brutal-sadistic reputation of the great Assyrian king Sennacherib, the lightningbolt that strikes the insubmissive, brought fear and terror into the hearts of the peoples of the Middle East. Sennacherib’s expansionist military campaigns were bloody and mayhemic, his compassion was seemingly non-existent. Very few in the Hittite lands dared to oppose him, among them was a ruler named Hazakiyau of Urusalim, certainly not a pro-Assyrian or a vassal. Like Philip V of Macedon who signed a Macedonian-Carthaginian treaty with General Hannibal Barka, to oppose Roman expansion, Hazakiyau of Urusalim placed his trust on the Egyptian-Ethiopian troops to throw off the Assyrian yoke. He made a serious mistake!

The archaeological artifact known as ‘The Taylor Prism’ or ‘The Sennacherib Prism’, discovered in northern Iraq in 1830, says that the great Assyrian king Sennacherib conquered all the city-states of Syria-Palestine, including Jerusalem. Sennacherib could have destroyed the heavily fortified city but chose not to do it. The hexagonal baked clay Prism says that the Assyrian king Sennacherib confined rebellious Hazakiyau in his own royal city, like a bird in a cage. Iron-willed Sennacherib threw earthworks against him, turning him into a prisoner. It is unclear if Hazakiyau survived the onslaught or not. All the walled-around cities of Hazakiyau were handed over to Mitinti, king of Ashdod, Padi, king of Ekron, and Silli-Bel, king of Gaza. Prior to the invasion, the officials, nobles, and people of Ekron bound their pro-Assyrian king, Padi, into fetters of iron, and handed him over to Hazakiyau, who kept him in prison like an enemy. In recognition of Sennacherib’s overlordship, Padi was restored to the royal throne of Ekron. Ekron is the same as Tel Miqne in central Israel, also known as Khirbat al-Muqana. Hazakiyau was not by any means the only ruler in Syria-Palestine who refused to kneel and bow down to the omnipotent Assyrian war machine. Sidka, king of Ashkelon, did not pay obeisance to the great king. Sidka was utterly destroyed. Their former ruler Sharru-lu-Dari, son of Rukibti, was placed on the throne, payment of tribute was imposed on him. King Sennacherib, son of Sargon II, ruled supreme from 704 to 681 B.C.E. Sennacherib was a contemporary of the 25th dynasty Kushite pharaoh “Shabataka” who ruled from 702 to 690 B.C.E.

All the war-like deeds of king Sennacherib are preserved for posterity in the 15-inch-tall six-sided clay prism known as “The Taylor Prism”, the red baked clay document is written in Akkadian cuneiform, it was found at Nevi Yunus, Nineveh in 1830. The priceless relic was acquired by the British Consul General of Baghdad Robert Taylor, it is currently housed in the British Museum of London (No. 91032). It is said that besides the Sennacherib Prism, two other hexagonal prisms were discovered, other versions of the same memorial inscription, nearly identical with minor variants. Beyond the shadow of a doubt the Taylor Prism is 100% authentic but the other two surviving prisms could be forgeries. It is unclear if the Sennacherib Prism was found in a scientifically conducted excavation or not, the precise circumstances of its discovery are unknown.

IF THE BIBLE SAYS IT IS TRUE THEN IT HAS TO BE TRUE.

“In the third year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah, son of Achaz, king of Judah, began to reign. He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem.”

(II Kings 18:1-2)

The Taylor Prism is of great historical importance because it makes one of the first extra-Biblical references to the kingdom of Judah and the Davidic dynasty, the grandiose inscription proves or seems to prove that Jerusalem is the eternal-undisputable capital of the Israeli-Jewish state. Anti-Assyrian Hazakiyau of Urusalim has been identified with the Biblical Hezekiah, the Judahite king who ruled in Jerusalem according to II Kings 18:1-2. The amazing tale of historical Hazakiyau parallels the Biblical account of Hezekiah, like Hazakiyau, Hezekiah the Judahite revolted against Sennacherib, king of Assyria (II Kings 19:32-34). Like Hazakiyau, Hezekiah relied on Egypt’s aid to vanquish the Assyrian troops (II Kings 18:21).

The Taylor Prism differs from the official-pontificated Biblical narrative in one aspect:

II Kings 19:32 says that the Lord God (Yahweh) assured his loyal servant Hezekiah that the terrifying king of Assyria will not reach the city of Jerusalem nor cast siege engines against it. According to the Bible, God’s unquestionable holy word, the Lord God performed a great miracle for Hezekiah. He stroke down the Assyrian camp, turning them ino a pile of corpses. II Kings 19:36 says that ultimately Sennacherib broke camp and returned to Nineveh shamefaced, as an object of astonishment and mockery. II Chronicles 32:22-23 says that king Hezekiah was exalted in the eyes of the nations.

This Biblical story is a false construct, a fairy tale, a lie. The historical record known as The Sennacherib Prism states clearly that insubmissive Hazakiyau, governor of Urusalim, was utterly defeated by the Assyrians, humiliated. Sennacherib put him under house arrest and threw earthworks against him, on top of that his kingdom was handed over to the potentates of Ashdod, Ekron, and Gaza. For all that we know Hazakiyau was buried under a pile of huge rocks, he never saw the light of day again.

“As for Hazaki-Yau, he did not submit to my yoke. I laid siege to forty-six of his fortified cities, walled forts and to the countless small villages in their vicinity, taken in battle with my battering rams. I led two-hundred thousand one-hundred and fifty people, young and old, male and female, horses, mules, donkeys, camels, big and small cattle without counting, and counted them as booty. As for Hazaki-Yau, I shut him up like a caged bird in his own royal city.”

(The annals of Sennacherib, great king of Assyria)

It is essential to understand that Hazakiyau, king of Urusalim, was not a Judahite, a Jew, or an Israelite as we’ve been told. He had to be a Hurrian, a Hittite, a Mitanni, or perhaps a Scythian. He was definitely an Apiru or Habiru. In the days of the 18th dynasty pharaoh Akhenaten, son of Amenhotep III, the governor of Jerusalem was named ‘Abdi-Khepa.’ Abdi-Khepa was not a Judahite or an Israelite, his enemies were local Apiru marauders.

II Kings 18:2 says that Hezekiah’s mother was named ‘Abi, daughter of Zechariah.’ Zekhariah sounds like “Khurru”, meaning “Hurru” (Hurrians). Abi-Zechariah appears to be an encryption-code for “Qubbat al-Sakhra”, the sacred perforated stone inside the al-Aqsa compound in the heart of Jerusalem. The disputed Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem is the holiest site of the Jewish religion and the third holiest site in Islam. The foundation stone known as ‘Eben Sh’tya’ encased in the Dome of the Rock is said to be the place from which God created the world, the place where God’s divine presence is purely manifest more than in any other place.

The Sennacherib Prism says that the Assyrian king confined Hazakiyau in his royal city (Jerusalem) like a bird in a cage because apparently the goddess Ishtar/Inanna/Lilith has her throne there in that spot. The ancient Mesopotamian goddess Inanna is usually depicted with bird talons and flanked by standing owls. Let us decode this puzzle:

ABI ZECHARIAH.

AB ZECHARAH.

AB ZACHRAH.

BBA SAKHRAH.

QUBBAT AL-SAKHRA.

The name ‘Hazakiyau’ means something like ‘The exalted one of Yaa’, Yau (Hazaki-Yau), not Judah or Yehudah with a letter ‘D.’ In ancient times northern Syria, Phoenicia, and the region of the Valley of Jezreel was known as the land of Yaa. In the days of the 12th dynasty Egyptian pharaoh Amenemhet I (1937-1908 B.C.E) Syro-Phoenicia was called Yaa. The Biblical term Judah-Yehudah appears to be a contraction word composed of ‘Yaa- Hadad’, Hadad was a Syrian war god associated with the lightningbolt. When the Macedonian king Alexander III the Great conquered Syria, Phoenicia, Samaria, and Gaza in 332 B.C.E. he didn’t notice anything significant in Jerusalem. The conqueror didn’t see any awe-inspiring Temple on the Temple Mount:

“The Jews had thus far remained nearly invisible to Alexander and his generals, though the Macedonians had crossed right through their territory and even, perhaps, entered the holy city. Not a single historian of the Alexander period mentions the Jews of Jerusalem, an omission that a later writer, the Romanized Jew Josephus, takes as a sign of ill will.”

(Ghost on the throne [The death of Alexander the great and the war for crown and empire], by James Romm. Alfred A. Knoff, pg 186)

(The Foundation Stone in the heart of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, encased in the Dome of the Rock)

PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT: ENERGY FLOWS WHERE ATTENTION GOES.

Chapter 18 of the 2nd book of Kings says that in the days of king Hezekiah of Judah, Shalmanaser, king of Assyria, laid siege to Samaria and captured it. Which Shalmanaser is this? Shalmanaser V, son of Tiglath Pileser III? The Sennacherib Prism says very clearly that king Hazakiyau of Urusalim had to combat the Assyrian king Sennacherib, son of Sargon II (704-681 B.C.E), not Shalmanaser V (726-722 B.C.E.). The sages who wrote the Old Testament tried to create confusion on purpose. Most evangelical Christians don’t know the difference between Shalmanaser III, son of Ashurnasirpal II, and Shalmanaser V, son of Tiglath Pileser III.

On top of that II Kings 19:9 implies that pharaoh Taharka (Tirhakah), king of Ethiopia, was an ally of Hazakiyau during the war. This is misleading information because the 25th dynasty Nubian pharaoh who supported Hazakiyau was “Shabataka” (Djedkaure), not Taharka. King Shabataka ruled from 702 to 690 B.C.E., Taharka came later on. Lastly, II Kings 19:35 says that the angel of the Lord God saved Hezekiah from the firm grip of iron-willed Sennacherib. According to the Bible the angel struck down 185, 000 Assyrian soldiers, they were turned into a pile of corpses. As a result, Sennacherib had no choice but to retreat.

This is extremely misleading information! The Greek historian Herodotus of Halicarnasus, often referred to as ‘The father of history’, speaks of a mice plague that forced Sennacherib to stop the invasion of Egypt during the reign of Sethos-Shabataku. Sethos, priest of Hephaistos, who had distanced himself from the Egyptian warrior class, begged his god for a miracle. Suddenly, a swarm of mice came out of nowhere and ate all the leather military gear of the Assyrian troops. Sennacherib saw that as an ill omen and the Assyrians fled from Egypt. This means in practical terms that the Lord Yahweh didn’t intervene to save Hezekiah, it was the pagan deity Hephaistos who made a miracle for Sethos-Shabataku (Herodotus, the Histories, 2.141). As we already know, Hazakiyau was utterly defeated, vanquished, his kingdom was handed over to his neighbors.

(Asiatic captive from the XVIII dynasty period, possibly a Habiru from northern Syria)

CONCLUSIONS.

We have been programmed to believe that the Western Semite Hazakiyau, king of Urusalim, formidable adversary of Sennacherib, king of Assyria, was a Judahite, a Jew. Hazakiyau, who has been identified with the Biblical Hezekiah, was not a Jew or an Israelite. Yet, it is very important to understand that he was not an Arab either, the Ethiopian mercenaries who assisted him were ‘Urbi.’ If Hazakiyau would be here today he would be aligned with the vibration and principles of Judaism. Like his predecessor Abdi-Khepa, possibly a Hittite, Hazakiyau was Caucasoid or of Caucasian extract. It appears like he worshipped a goddess. Basically, it is fair to say that Hazakiyau is the mythical ancestor of the present-day Jewish-Israelis but he was not a Jew or an Israelite.

When king Sennacherib went against the Hittite lands he overcame Lule, the king of Sidon in modern-day Lebanon. He subjugated the city-states of Amurru and seated ‘Tubalu’ on the royal throne over them. Tubalu is a direct reference to the Scythians since Tbilisi is the capital of modern-day Georgia by the Caucasus. In the days of the 26th dynasty pharaoh Psamtik I (664-610 B.C.E.) a Scythian horde invaded all of Syria-Palestine and reached the Egyptian border. They paid special attention to the coastal city of Ascalon north of Gaza but didn’t care much for Jerusalem.