2 Chronicles 32:9

his servants Three of these are specified in 2 Kin. by their titles, viz. the Tartan ("Commander-in-chief"), the Rab-saris ("Chief of the Heads"), and the Rab-shakeh ("Chief of the officers").

but hehimself laid siege against Lachish R.V. now he was before Lachish. The capture of Lachish by Sennacherib and its spoliation are shewn on an Assyrian relief now in the British Museum. The king himself besieged Lachish because it was of more importance for the main object of the campaign than Jerusalem. Sennacherib's objective was Egypt (Herod. ii. 141), and Lachish (Tell-el-Ḥesy, Bädeker, p. 154), lay directly in his path.