who is esarhaddon king of assur
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- Esarhaddon (681 - 669 BC) was a king of Assyria, the son and successor of Sennacherib. When his father named him as successor although he was the youngest son, his brothers tried to get him into miscredit. Oracles named Esarhaddon as the person to free the exiles and to rebuild Babylon, the destruction of which by Sennacherib was felt to be sacrilegious.
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Assyrian captivity In 722 BC, nearly twenty years after the initial deportations, the ruling city of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, Samaria, was finally taken by Sargon II after a three-year siege started by Shalmaneser V. Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.he later Assyrian rulers Sargon II and his son and successor, Sennacherib, were responsible for finishing the twenty-year demise of Israel's northern ten-tribe kingdom, although they did not overtake the Southern Kingdom. Jerusalem was besieged, but not taken.
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Assyria In addition to the Hatti, there were the people known as the Amorites who were steadily settling in the area and acquiring more land and resources. The Assyrian king Shamashi Adad I (1813-1791 BCE) drove the Amorites out and secured the borders of Assyria, claiming Ashur as the capital of his kingdom.
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Ashurbanipal Early life. 1  The life of this vigorous ruler of an empire ranging initially from the Persian Gulf to Cilicia, Syria, and Egypt can be largely reconstructed from his autobiographical annals and royal correspondence. His father, Esarhaddon, appointed him crown prince of Assyria in May 672 bc to avert a dynastic struggle.
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Amorites Ancient Mesopotamia - Babylon and Assyria. After the fall of the Akkadian Empire, the Amorites were the next people to dominate Mesopotamia. The Amorites were a Semitic tribe that moved into central Mesopotamia. King Hammurabi of the city of Babylon is the most famous of the Amorite rulers.
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- Ancient Assyria covered the vast majority of northern Mesopotamia. King Hammurabi of Babylon conquered Assyria after Shamshi-Adad's death, which made Assyria a vassal state. When Ashur-uballit I seized the throne of Assyria in the 14th century B.C., he conquered Babylon, returning the capital to Ashur.
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- Across the centuries, from the Bronze Age to Imperial Rome, we encounter a vast array of characters and civilisations, enlivening, enriching, and besmirching the annals of Syrian history: Hittite and Assyrian Great Kings; Egyptian pharaohs; Amorite robber-barons; the biblically notorious Nebuchadnezzar; Persia's Cyrus the Great and Macedon's Alexander the Great; the rulers of the Seleucid empire and an assortment of Rome's most distinguished and most infamous emperors.
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Assyrian siege of Jerusalem Nergal-ushezib was captured in 693 BCE and taken to Nineveh, and Sennacherib attacked Elam again. The Elamite king fled to the mountains and Sennacherib plundered his kingdom, but when he withdrew the Elamites returned to Babylon and put another rebel leader, Mushezib-Marduk, on the Babylonian throne.
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Assyria Assyria, more rugged in character, did not enjoy the same advantages. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow Ramman-nirari's reign marks a turning-point in the history of Assyria.
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- NINEVEH was the famous capital of ancient Assyria. Previous cities like Asshur and Calah were ancient capitals of Assyria, but NINEVEH became most famous in the seventh century BC. When King Sennacherib (705-681 BC) made NINEVEH his capital, the empire expanded and became prosperous. Nineveh and the Assyrian Empire.
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Ahab Ahab's Reign: Ahab, son of Omri, the seventh king of Israel, who reigned for twenty-two years, from 876 to 854 (1 Kings 16:28), was one of the strongest and at the same time one of the weakest kings of Israel.
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Sargon Sargon (prince of the sea), one of the greatest of the Assyrian kings, is mentioned by name but once in Scripture-- ( Isaiah 20:1) He was the successor of Shalmaneser, and was Sennacheribs father and his reigned from B.C. 721 to 702, and seems to have been a usurper. He was undoubtedly a great and successful warrior.
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ISIS bulldozes ruins of ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, Iraqi ministry says King Ashurnasirpal II made Nimrud the royal seat and the military capital of Assyria, Encyclopedia Britannica's website says. Buildings at Nimrud have yielded thousands of carved ivories, mostly made in the 9th and 8th centuries B.C., now one of the richest collections of ivory in the world, the encyclopedia says.
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The Chaldean Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II Nebuchadnezzar was the most famous and important king of the Second Babylonian (or Neo-Babylonian or Chaldean) Empire, which fell to the Persian great king Cyrus the Great in 539 B.C.
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Xerxes I Xerxes I (ruled 486-465 BCE), also known as Xerxes the Great, was the king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. His official title was Shahanshah which, though usually translated as `emperor’, actually means `king of kings’.
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Herod Agrippa II Herod Agrippa II, (born 27 ce —died c. 93), king of Chalcis in southern Lebanon from 50 ce and tetrarch of Batanaea and Trachonitis in south Syria from 53 ce, who unsuccessfully mediated with the rebels in the First Jewish Revolt (66–70 ce). He was a great-grandson of Herod I the Great.
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- 1 In the bible, this is the name of a king of Persia.  ACHSHIYARSHU: Babylonian form of Persian Khashayarshah, meaning great warrior or lion-king.. In the bible, this is the name of a king of Persia. His Hebrew name is Achashverosh.
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- 1 ACHASHVEROSH (אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹש): Hebrew form of Babylonian Achshiyarshu, meaning great warrior or lion-king.. 2  In the bible, this is the name of a king of Persia. 3  ACHSHIYARSHU: Babylonian form of Persian Khashayarshah, meaning great warrior or lion-king..4  In the bible, this is the name of a king of Persia.n the bible, this is the name of the son and successor of Xerxes as emperor of Persia. ARTACHSHATRA: Persian name meaning great warrior or lion-king.. In the bible, this is the name of the son and successor of Khshayarsha as emperor of Persia. His Hebrew name is Artachshashta.
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- Bashar Hafez al-Assad (Arabic: بشار حافظ الأسد‎‎ Baššār Ḥāfiẓ al-ʾAsad, Levantine pronunciation: [baʃˈʃaːr ˈħaːfezˤ elˈʔasad]; English pronunciation (help·info); born 11 September 1965) is the current President of Syria, in office since 17 July 2000.
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- The Assyrian Empire began to arise around 1270 BC, in the area far north on the Tigris River after the fall of Chaldea. The first capital of Assyria was Assur, and after that Nimrod became the capital of ancient Assyria. Later in 702 BC Nineveh became capital, and this was during the reign of king Sennacherib.
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Assyria Assyria (mât Aššur): ancient name for the northeastern part of modern Iraq, situated on the east bank of the Tigris. It is also the name of one of the greatest empires of Antiquity. Assyria was overthrown in 612 BCE by the Babylonians.
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Assyrians For 300 years Assyrians controlled the entire Fertile Crescent, from the Persian Gulf to Egypt. In 612 B . C ., however, Assyria's capital, Nineveh, was besieged and destroyed by a coalition of Medes, Scythians, and Chaldeans, decimating the previously powerful Assyrian Empire.
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- Genesis 11:1-9 on the plain of Shinar, they started to build a tower. Amraphel, king of Shinar, invaded Canaan in the days of Abram (Gen. 14:1). Nebuchadnezzar was ruler of the land of Shinar (Dan.
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4d. Assyrians: Cavalry and Conquests This was the boast of King Esarhaddon (680-669 B.C.E.), who expanded the Assyrian empire to its greatest extent. At the height of his great power, in 671 B.C.E., he conquered Egypt in less than a month. The Egyptian kingdom was considered one of the most impenetrable in the Middle East.
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Naram-Sin of Akkad Naram-Sin was a ruler of the Akkadian Empire, the third successor and grandson of King Sargon of Akkad. Under Naram-Sin the empire reached its maximum strength. He was the first Mesopotamian king known to have claimed divinity for himself, taking the title God of Akkad, and one of the first to claim the title King of the Four Quarters, King of the Universe.
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The Death of Sennacherib: A Case Study in Prophecy Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them (2 Kings 18:13). Assyrian records state that he took forty-six fortified cities and captured numerous other smaller communities.