Assyria: is the Conventional Profile Believable? by J. Eric Aitchison ....... It is with some exhilaration that I accept the conventional date for the third campaign as 701 because it fits so nicely with the destruction experience of Sennacherib outside the walls of Jerusalem in 687 and the Biblical comment that Hezekiah would be granted 15 more years of life [40]. As most historians would give his last year as 686 then his assurance of 15 more years after his Assyrian confrontation would be in 701. It would seem that Hezekiah had various dates with Assyria. 40. II Kings 20:6.