Siege of Lachish

Siege of Lachish
	Part of Sennacherib's campaign in the Levant
	; Assyrian siege-engine attacking the city wall of Lachish, part of the ascending assaulting wave. Detail of a wall relief dating back to the reign of Sennacherib, 700-692 BCE. From Nineveh, Iraq, currently housed in the British Museum.
Date	701 BCE
Location	Lachish, Kingdom of Judah
Result	Assyrian victory Lachish captured;
Belligerents
Neo-Assyrian Empire	Kingdom of Judah
Commanders and leaders
Sennacherib	Unknown
Strength
Unknown	Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Heavy

The siege of Lachish was the Neo-Assyrian Empire's siege and conquest of the town of Lachish in 701 BCE. 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.

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