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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Sargon
Isaiah 20:1 is the only place he is named. Sargon II took the Assyrian throne after Shalmaneser V died, around 722 BC. He finished the conquest of Samaria, and his own annals from Khorsabad record it.
Isaiah 20:1 is the only place he is named. Sargon II took the Assyrian throne after Shalmaneser V died, around 722 BC. He finished the conquest of Samaria, and his own annals from Khorsabad record it.
Sargon II seized the Assyrian throne after Shalmaneser V's death around 722 BC and completed the conquest of Samaria, deporting the northern kingdom's population, as his own royal annals from his palace at Khorsabad record. 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 by one of his own soldiers 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
