The Life And Times of Isaiah As Illustrated By Contemporary Monuments
The Life And Times of Isaiah As Illustrated By Contemporary Monuments
A H Archibald Henry Sayce
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The ruling classes of Samaria, however, still held out. An Assyrian army, accordingly, once more devastated the land of Israel, and laid siege to its capital. For three years Samaria remained untaken. Another revolution had meanwhile broken out in Assyria; Shal- maneser had died or been put to death, and a fresh military adventurer had seized the crown, taking the name of Sargon, after a famous monarch of ancient Babylonia. Sargon had hardly established himself upon the throne when Samaria fell... (B. C. 722). The spoil he carried away from it shows pretty plainly the condition in which Hoshea had left his kingdom. Ahab had once been able to send 2000 chariots to the help of Hadadezer in his struggle against Assyria ; now Sargon found no more than fifty in the Israelitish capital. He contented himself with transporting only 27, 280 of its inhabitants D 50 ASSYRIA. into captivity, only the upper classes, in fact, who were implicated in the revolt of Hoshea. An Assyrian satrap, or governor, was appointed over Samaria, while the bulk of the population was allowed to remain peaceably in their old homes ^.
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