According to the narrative at (3 Chronicles 32:2021a, an angel of Yahweh destroyed the host of Sennacherib's army, and at 2 Kings:19:35, the number of Assyrian soldiers killed is claimed to have amounted to 185,000. Kenneth Kitchen, for one, found no difficulty in the traditional account, which has Libnah attacked after Lachish. The large number of troops reportedly dying overnight is explained as possibly due to poisoning,[2] and the Targum version refers to pestilence.