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Title: Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894
Subjects: Nineveh (Extinct city) Babylon (Extinct city) Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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On one ofthem, representing war-chariots following the king, is an in-scription in which Dr. Hincks detected the name of Mena-hem, king of Israel, who is mentioned amongst other princespaying tribute to Tiglath Pileser in tlie eighth year of his reign. ;! • Nineveh and its Remains, p. 272. + Their names, acconling to Sir H. Rawlinson, were Shalman-ussur(the 3rd), Asshur-danin-il (the 2nd), and Asshur-zala-Khus. % I Chron. v. 26, 2 Kin«(s, xv. 29. Of the name of Pul. king ofAssyria, who is mcntionetl in Chronicles and in 2 Kings (.xv. 19, 29), ashaving carried away thejews, no trace has hitherto been found in the cnnei-form inscriptions. This fact has led to the conjecture that he was identicalwith Tiglath Pileser. The arguments for and against this identifi»ationare stated in Rawlinsons Ancient Monarchies,vol. ii. 386-389. § See Nineveh and its Remains, p. 275. Ij This very important and interesting discovery was first announcedby Dr. Hincks in the Athenaeum for January 3, 1852.
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36o NINEVEH AND BAB\j^Ui^. (Chap. Unfortunately the fragmentary state of the monuments andbas-reliefs of this king prevents the restoration, in a completeshape, of his annals. He appears, in the first year of hisreign, to have carried his arms into Babylonia and Chaldsea,where he received the submission of a king bearing thefamiliar biblical name of Merodach Baladan.* It cannot beascertained clearly from the inscriptions, in what year of hisreign he undertook his expedition into Syria and Palestine.It has been conjectured th^t it was in the fourth. He sub-dued Samaria (in which Menahem reigned), Damascus, Tyre(whose king bore the name of Hiram), and, apparently,some of the Arab tribes inhabiting Arabia Petraea and theSinaitic peninsula, who were ruled by a queen. His cam-paign against Pekah, king of Israel, described in the SecondBook of Kings,t during which he captured several Jewishcities, and carried their inhabitants into captivity, probablytook place some years later, but no dist

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