sackbut:
a Syrian stringed harp
type of musical instrument in a triangular
shape
Sargon I.also
known as Sargon the Great, ruler of Assyria,
reigned about B.C.E. 2335-2279,
He was an Akkadian
king who for the first time in Mesopotamian
history united the ancient lands of Sumer
and Akkad, in present-day Iraq and Syria. Little is known of Sargon's early
life.
In the Hebrew language,
Sargon was Sharru-kin.(Isaiah
20:1).of
Assyria, meaning 'legitimate king'.
After founding the city Agade
in northern Sumer,
Sargon conquered all of Mesopotamia.(parts
of present-day Iraq, Syria and Turkey),
including Sumer and parts of northern Syria
and Elam.(in
present-day Iran). They worshiped a
sun God and they lived by written laws.
The Akkadian dynasty gained
control of the entire country in B.C.E. 24th century and the land became
known as Sumer and Akkad. Although the region fell to northern invaders
about B.C.E. 2200, Mesopotamia remained the center of western Asian civilization
until B.C.E. 6th century. The book.King
of Battle, deals with the military expedition to Anatolia.(the
Asian part of Turkey synonymous
with Asia Minor).led
by Sargon I.
Sargon II,
ruler of Assyria; the greatest
of the Assyrian kings back then. He was Shalmaneser's
successor, reigning B.C.E.
722-705. What did the name Sargon mean?
In the Assyrian
inscriptions
thus writes:."Samaria
I looked at, I captured; 27,280 men.(and
their families).who
dwelt in it I carried away; I appointed a governor over them and continued
the tribute
of the former people".
Sargon II in the inscriptions
describes his transporting prisoners from Babylon to."the
land of the Hittites".in
the region of Samaria:.2Kings
17:24.
Sargon II expanded the empire
of Assyria from the heart of Mesopotamia
to Israel and present day eastern Turkey.
Sargon II ascended the throne
in somewhat obscure
circumstances and chose the name Sargon, meaning 'legitimate ruler' hearkening.back
to the ancient.glory
of Sargon I, who ruled from about B.C.E. 2335 to
2279.
From B.C.E. 9th to the 7th
century, Babylonia's northern neighbor, Assyria
gained much territory under Ashirnasirpur
II and his successors.
Most important of these later
countries was Babylonia,
which was ruled as Chaldea
from B.C.E. 7th to the 6th century.
Nebuchadnezzer
II, almost two thousand years later, the Chaldean dynasty's most powerful
ruler, conquered Jerusalem and deported
the Israelites in B.C.E. 586, beginning an important period in history
known as the Babylonian Captivity:.2Chronicles
36:6,7. This captivity was one
of the many that Israel and Judah was sent into.(2Chronicles
36:10).by
God. They just couldn't see God's way was better than the way they wanted
to go:.Proverbs
14:12. They didn't know God as their
forefathers did, didn't want to know anything about the true God and
kicked God out of their lives:.Jeremiah
44:16,17.
Sargon II integrated.Babylonia
into the Assyrian Empire and put a forced tribute upon a long series of
rulers, including King Midas of Phrygia.(known
in Western legend as Midas of the Golden Touch).and
the
pharaoh of Egypt. Having consolidated
his hold on much of the Middle East, Sargon began to build a new capital,
Dur Sharrukin.(meaning,
Fortress of Sargon).on
a small stream that runs into the Tigris River from the east. Today Dur
Sharrukin is the city of Khorsabad in northern Iraq.
Not long before the capital
was to be completed, Sargon led his armies in battle, probably against
the Cimmerians, in the land of Tabal in the Taurus Mountains in present-day
southern Turkey. There, at the height of his power, he was abruptly killed
in battle. Succeeded by his son Sennacherib,
Sargon created an empire that lasted nearly a century after his death.....comprised
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-Shallum:
son of Jabesh who treacherously.usurped
the evil Zachariah.in
order to become 14th king of Israel, B.C.E.
772:.2Kings
15:10.
He reigned only one month.(2Kings
15:13), when evil Menahem
son of Gadi killed him in Samaria
and became king in his stead:.2Kings
15:14-19.
Shallum being slain, illustrates.the
retributive law:.Matthew
26:52.
There was another
king of Israel also called Shallum. And even yet another, this
Shallum being king of Judah.
And there were other Shallums
listed in the Bible who were not kings, one example of the many
more is:.Numbers
26:49 "Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites. Of Shillem.(also
called Shallum), the family of the
Shillemites.".This
Shallum was a son of
Naphtali.
Please see 'Shallum' in one
of the
Bible
dictionaries for the rest of them, if interested.