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The ancient Assyrians were an incredibly cruel group of people, they showed no mercy to anyone who dared to oppose them. Later king Sennacherib set out to make an example out of the jew who rebelled against him. Unfortunately during the siege of Jerusalem, Sennacherib's forces were hit by the plague, very convenient timing, and thus had to stop the siege. If Sennacherib succeeded, he would've destroyed Jerusalem and he would've had the jew king Hezekiah impaled or flayed alive.

He is recorded as saying;

''On Sennacherib's prism, he says this of Hezekiah: "As for the king of Judah, Hezekiah, who had not submitted to my authority, I besieged and captured forty-six of his fortified cities, along with many smaller towns, taken in battle with my battering rams. ... I took as plunder 200,150 people, both small and great, male and female, along with a great number of animals including horses, mules, donkeys, camels, oxen, and sheep. As for Hezekiah, I shut him up like a caged bird in his royal city of Jerusalem. I then constructed a series of fortresses around him, and I did not allow anyone to come out of the city gates. His towns which I captured I gave to the kings of Ashod, Ekron, and Gaza.''