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HT Stephen Savage on Facebook. If Sennacherib had at least one Dalek and he couldn’t take Jerusalem, does that mean that God sent the Doctor to help king Hezekiah? (For a more mundane explanation of the image, see the British Museum web site). \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,42,46],"tags":[851,852,2394,2395,2765,4587,5669,11068],"class_list":["post-13391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who-science-fiction","category-humor","category-isaiah","tag-assyria","tag-assyrian","tag-dalek","tag-daleks","tag-doctor-who","tag-hezekiah","tag-jerusalem","tag-sennacherib"],"yoast_head":"\n
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