Sennacherib attacks Jewish King Hezekiah’s rebellious Judea. He sacks 46 towns and villages, but fails to take Jerusalem. According to Melachim Beth (Kings II 19:35), God slayed the entire Assyrian camp of 185,000 troops the night before the anticipated battle. The Greek historian Herodotus (in his Histories, 450 BCE) relates a parallel divinely–appointed “mega disaster saga” befalling Sennacherib’s army the night before it faces the Jewish forces.