Bible Location
Meaning: troubling · 3 cross references · Modern-day map available
Hena was a Mesopotamian city later cited by Assyrian kings among the places they had conquered. It is important because it appears in the rhetoric used to intimidate Judah. First appears in 2 Kgs 18:34.1
AI summary: Hena matters through memory of defeat rather than through a separate narrative. Assyrian spokesmen name it alongside other conquered cities to suggest that Judah can expect the same fate. The cross references present Hena as one more witness to imperial boasting and the pressure placed on Jerusalem.1
One of the cities of Mesopotamia destroyed by sennacherib (2 Kings 18:34; 19:13). It is identified with the modern Anah, lying on the right bank of the Euphrates, not far from Sepharvaim. 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.