Proof of Wars

The following list contains extra-biblical evidence regarding wars mentioned in Scripture:

• Campaign into Israel by Pharaoh Shishak (1 Kings 14:25-26), recorded on the walls of the Temple of Amun in Thebes, Egypt
• Revolt of Moab against Israel (2 Kings 1:1, 3:4-27), recorded on the Mesha Inscription
• Fall of Samaria (2 Kings 17:3-6, 24,18:9-11) to Sargon II, king of Assyria, as recorded on his palace walls
• Defeat of Ashdod by Sargon II (Isaiah 20:1), as recorded on his palace walls
• Campaign of the Assyrian king Sennacherib against Judah (2 Kings 18:13-16), as recorded on the Taylor Prism
• Siege of Lachish by Sennacherib (2 Kings 18:14,17), as recorded on the Lachish reliefs
• Assassination of Sennacherib by his own sons (2 Kings 19:37), as recorded in the annals of his son Esarhaddon
• Fall of Nineveh as predicted by the prophets Nahum (2-3) and Zephaniah (2:13-15), recorded on the Tablet of Nabopolasar
• Fall of Jerusalem to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon (2 Kings 24:10-14), as recorded in the Babylonian Chronicles.
• Captivity of Jehoiachin, king of Judah, in Babylon (2 Kings 24:15-16), as recorded on the Babylonian Ration Records
• Fall of Babylon to the Medes and Persians (Daniel 5:30-31), as recorded on the Cyrus Cylinder
• Freeing of captives in Babylon by Cyrus the Great (Ezra 1:1-4, 6:3-4), as recorded on the Cyrus Cylinder
• Forcing Jews to leave Rome during the reign of Claudius (A.D. 41-54) (Acts 18:2), as recorded by Suetonius