Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld1860

Sennacherib's Power Broken at Hezekiah's Prayer

After Hezekiah spreads the Assyrian threat before the Lord in prayer, the angel of the Lord strikes the camp of Sennacherib in the night and Jerusalem is delivered (2 Kings 19). A wood engraving from Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld's Die Bibel in Bildern (1860).

Sennacherib's Power Broken at Hezekiah's Prayer by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld depicting 2 Kings 19:14
View full resolutionPublic domain via Wikimedia Commons. Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794–1872), Die Bibel in Bildern, Leipzig: Georg Wigand, 1860.Source

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Portrait of Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld

About Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld

1794-1872 · German

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld was a German Nazarene painter whose "Die Bibel in Bildern" (1852–1860), a cycle of 240 woodcuts, became one of the most widely circulated Protestant Bible picture books of the 19th century.