[2][3] Kenneth Kitchen, for one, found no difficulty in the traditional account, which has Libnah attacked after Lachish.
According to the narrative at (2 Chronicles 32:20–21a, 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.
The large number of troops reportedly dying overnight is explained as possibly due to poisoning,[4] and the Targum version refers to pestilence.
Eusebius and Jerome (OS 274:13; 135:28) describe it as being a village in the region of Eleutheropolis (Beit Gubrin), called in their day Lobana or Lobna.
The context suggests that this Libna lay somewhere in the Sinai Desert which the Israelites are described as traversing prior to entering the land of Canaan.