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I besieged and captured Samaria. I took as spoil 27,290 people who live there; I organized (a contingent of) fifty of their chariots and I instructed the rest of them in correct conduct. I appointed…
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Dur-Sharrukin, Assyria (Khorsabad, Iraq)
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722–705 BCE
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Year 7. The month Kislev. The king of Akkad mobilized his troops and marched to Hatti.
He encamped against the city of Judah and in the month Adar, day 2, he captured the city; he seized the king. He…
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Nineveh, Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)
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598–597 BCE
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Cult statues in Assyrian relief from the Palace of Tiglath-pileser III (reigned 745–727 BCE) in Kalhu/Calah (today’s Nimrud, Iraq). Although no Mesopotamian cult statues have been found, reliefs such…
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Callah, Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)
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Iron Age, 8th Century BCE
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Scribes writing lists, Nimrud, late eighth century BCE. Two Assyrian scribes, standing side by side, make lists of booty as it comes in. One writes on a clay tablet and the other writes on a scroll.
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Calah, Assyria (Nimrud, Iraq)
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Late 8th Century BCE
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This relief, from Sennacherib’s palace in Nineveh, shows Sennacherib’s army attacking Lachish (an event alluded to in 2 Kings 18:14 and 17). Sennacherib is sitting on his throne outside the city…
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Nineveh, Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)
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700–681 BCE
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The Samarians, who had come to an agreement with a [hostile (?)] king not to do service or to render tribute to me, did battle. In the strength of the great gods, my lords, I fought with them; I…
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Calah, Assyria (Nimrud, Iraq)
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722–705 BCE
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As for Hezekiah, the Judean, I besieged 46 of his fortified walled cities and surrounding smaller towns, which were without number. Using packed-down ramps and applying battering rams, infantry…
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Nineveh, Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)
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701–681 BCE
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I mobilized the kings of Hatti and “Beyond-the-River”: Baal, king of Tyre; Manasseh, king of Judah; Kaus-gabri, king of Edom; Mutsuri, king of Moab; Tsilli-Bel, king of Gaza; Mitinti, king of Ashkelon…
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Nineveh, Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)
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673–672 BCE
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Soldier slaying captive, Khorsabad, late eighth century BCE. The captive is probably a Samarian seized during Sargon’s conquest of the city. From a relief in the palace of Sargon at Dur-Sharrukin…
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Dur-Sharrukin, Assyria (Khorsabad, Iraq)
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Late 9th Century BCE
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Impaled corpses at Lachish, detail from Assyrian relief in the Nineveh palace of Sennacherib (reigned 705–681 BCE), depicting the conquest of Lachish in 701 BCE. For the full relief see Conquest of…
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Nineveh, Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)
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Iron Age II, 7th Century BCE