This resulted in the siege of Samaria by Shalmaneser, and according to the Babylonian Chronicle, the resistance of the city of Shamar’in (Samaria?) was broken after three years (cf. v. 5). 2 Kings 17:6 tells that the king of Assyria who defeated Samaria took Israelite captives to ...
He allied his army with the Chaldeans, who were now in control of Babylon and Sumer. The Medes and Chaldeans attacked, and together they defeated the Assyrians, overrunning Assyria's capital, Nineveh, in 612. Nineveh's walls were broken by the siege engines that Assyria had introduced ...
Babylon and Assyria began to vie for Amorite regions, formerly under firm Hittite control. The Assyrian king Ashur-resh-ishi defeated Nebuchadnezzar I of Babylon in a battle, when their forces encountered one another in this region.
A king not mentioned in Holy Scripture tells us that he defeated Ahab, and forced Jehu to pay him tribute. Another (Pul) took tribute from Menahem (2 Kings 15:19, 20). A third (Tiglath. Pfieser) carried two tribes and a half into captivity (ibid. ver. 29; 1 Chronicles 5:26). ...
In 841bche defeatedHazaeland, after failing to capture Damascus itself, marched to the Mediterranean coast where he received tribute from Tyre, Sidon, and Samaria. The submission of the latter is shown on the “Black Obelisk” (fromNimrūd, now in the British Museum) where “Jehu, son of ...
Takelot II 850-825 Thebes? Sheshonq III 825-773 835-795 Sheshonq IV ? 795-785 Pami 773-767 785-775 Sheshonq V 767-730 775-735 XXIII Dynasty Osorkon IV 730-715 735-715 Defeated by Piꜥankhi at Hermopolis & submits to him, c. 728; dethroned by Shabaka ...
Shamash-shum-ukin was the crown prince of Babylon, son of Esarhaddon and brother of Ashurbanipal, the last of the great kings of Assyria. He led a coalition of Arabic tribes against Ashurbanipal, but, after being starved out by his brother’s siege of Ba