Wrote also letters - See 2 Kings 19:9, 2 Kings 19:14.

spake

2 Chronicles 32:13-17 Know you not what I and my fathers have done to all the people of other lands...

1 Samuel 17:36 Your servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them...

Job 15:25,26 For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself against the Almighty...

Psalm 10:13,14 Why does the wicked scorn God? he has said in his heart, You will not require it...

Psalm 73:8-11 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily...

Psalm 139:19,20 Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, you bloody men...

the God

2 Chronicles 6:6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

Psalm 76:1,2 In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel...

Psalm 78:68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.

Psalm 87:1-3 His foundation is in the holy mountains...

Psalm 132:13,14 For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation...

Isaiah 14:32 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD has founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

Hebrews 12:22 But you are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

the work

Deuteronomy 4:28 And there you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

Deuteronomy 27:15 Cursed be the man that makes any graven or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman...

2 Kings 19:18 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone...

Psalm 135:15-18 The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands...

Isaiah 2:8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

Isaiah 37:19 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone...

Isaiah 44:16-20 He burns part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eats flesh; he roasts roast, and is satisfied: yes, he warms himself, and said...

Jeremiah 1:16 And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods...

Jeremiah 10:3,9 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax...

Jeremiah 32:30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth...

Hosea 8:5,6 Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off; my anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocence...

The Power of Assyria at Its Zenith; Esarhaddon and Assur-Bani-Pal
The Medes and Cimmerians: Lydia--The conquest of Egypt, of Arabia, and of Elam. As we have already seen, Sennacherib reigned for eight years after his triumph; eight years of tranquillity at home, and of peace with all his neighbours abroad. If we examine the contemporary monuments or the documents of a later period, and attempt to glean from them some details concerning the close of his career, we find that there is a complete absence of any record of national movement on the part of either Elam, …
G. Maspero—History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 8