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The Destruction of Sennacherib (Russian: Поражение Сеннахериба), is a choral work composed by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881), based on text Lord Byron's poem "The Destruction of Sennacherib". It was written between 1866 and 1867, and is dedicated for Mily Balakirev.
"The Destruction of Sennacherib" [2] is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1815 in his Hebrew Melodies (in which it was titled The Destruction of Semnacherib). [3] The poem is based on the biblical account of the historical Assyrian siege of Jerusalem in 701 BC by Assyrian king Sennacherib , as described in 2 Kings 18–19, Isaiah 36–37.
Sennacherib's Prism. Sennacherib's Prism, which details the events of Sennacherib's campaign against Judah, was discovered in the ruins of Nineveh in 1830, and is now stored at the Oriental Institute in Chicago, Illinois. [2] The Prism dates from about 690 BC, and its account is taken from an earlier cuneiform inscription dating to 700 BC. [8]
This negative view of Sennacherib endured until modern times. Sennacherib is presented as akin to a ruthless predator, attacking Judah as a "wolf on the fold" in the famous 1815 poem The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron: [114] The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;
The Destruction of Sennacherib: 1866: 1867: Original version; for chorus and orchestra; based on The Destruction of Sennacherib from Hebrew Melodies (1815) The Destruction of Sennacherib: 1874: 1874: Revised version; for chorus and orchestra; based on The Destruction of Sennacherib from Hebrew Melodies (1815) Iisus Navin: 1874: 1877-07-02
The siege of Lachish was the Neo-Assyrian Empire's siege [1] and conquest of the town of Lachish in 701 BCE. [2] The siege is documented in several sources including the Hebrew Bible, Assyrian documents and in the Lachish relief, a well-preserved series of reliefs which once decorated the Assyrian king Sennacherib's palace at Nineveh.
The destruction was so much so, it may have been a factor in Sennacherib's murder by two of his sons, eight years after the destruction. Another of his sons, Esarhaddon , succeeded him and endeavored to compensate Babylonia for his father's sacrilege by releasing Babylonian exiles and rebuilding Babylon.
The Lachish reliefs are a set of Assyrian palace reliefs narrating the story of the Assyrian victory over the kingdom of Judah during the siege of Lachish in 701 BCE. Carved between 700 and 681 BCE, as a decoration of the South-West Palace of Sennacherib in Nineveh (in modern Iraq), the relief is today in the British Museum in London, [3] and was included as item 21 in the BBC Radio 4 series A ...