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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.

Esar-haddon (King living at the time of Divided Monarchy)

Sennacherib was murdered and Esarhaddon took the Assyrian throne after him. He carried Manasseh of Judah off to Babylon, and his own inscriptions list Manasseh among the vassal kings paying him tribute.

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Sennacherib was murdered and Esarhaddon took the Assyrian throne after him. He carried Manasseh of Judah off to Babylon, and his own inscriptions list Manasseh among the vassal kings paying him tribute.

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Esarhaddon was the Assyrian king who succeeded Sennacherib after his assassination, and he was the one who took Judah's King Manasseh captive to Babylon, an episode confirmed by Esarhaddon's own inscriptions listing Manasseh among the vassal kings who paid him tribute.

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H634

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  • 2 Kings 19:37
  • Ezra 4:2
  • Isaiah 37:38

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