In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, King Sennacherib of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them — Sennacherib, Shalmaneser's successor, initiates a massive campaign against Judah. The synchronism places this in Hezekiah's fourteenth year, after his initial military successes and Samaria's fall. Sennacherib's capture of fortified cities throughout Judah represents a systematic invasion. Unlike the Syro-Ephraimite crisis that merely besieged Jerusalem, Sennacherib's campaign reaches throughout Judean territory. The magnitude of this threat exceeds anything Judah had faced since David's era.

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