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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Sargon (Emperor living at the time of Divided Monarchy)
Sargon II took the Assyrian throne after Shalmaneser V died, around 722 BC. His annals from Khorsabad claim he conquered Samaria and carried off 27,290 of its people, though the Babylonian Chronicle gives the city to Shalmaneser and most historians read Sargon as taking his predecessor's credit.
Sargon II took the Assyrian throne after Shalmaneser V died, around 722 BC. His annals from Khorsabad claim he conquered Samaria and carried off 27,290 of its people, though the Babylonian Chronicle gives the city to Shalmaneser and most historians read Sargon as taking his predecessor's credit.
Sargon II seized the Assyrian throne after Shalmaneser V's death around 722 BC and claimed the conquest of Samaria and the deportation of 27,290 of its people in his royal annals at Khorsabad, though the Babylonian Chronicle credits Shalmaneser V with taking the city, and most reconstructions have Shalmaneser besieging it and Sargon claiming the credit. He is named directly in the Bible only once, in connection with his general's siege of Ashdod (Isaiah 20:1), and he later drove the Babylonian rebel Merodach-baladan out of Babylon before being killed on campaign in Tabal in 705 BC, his body never recovered, and succeeded by his son Sennacherib. For years scholars doubted a king named Sargon had even existed, since he appeared nowhere outside Isaiah 20:1; the nineteenth-century excavation of his inscriptions at Khorsabad confirmed both his reign and his Samaria campaign.
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- Isaiah 20:1
