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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Shalman (King living at the time of Divided Monarchy)
Hosea 10:14 remembers him for the brutal sack of Beth-arbel and holds it up as a warning to Israel. Most take him to be Shalmaneser V of Assyria.
Hosea 10:14 remembers him for the brutal sack of Beth-arbel and holds it up as a warning to Israel. Most take him to be Shalmaneser V of Assyria.
Shalman appears in Hosea 10:14 as the perpetrator of a brutal defeat of Beth-arbel, an event the prophet cites as a warning of the judgment coming on Israel. Most interpreters identify him with Shalmaneser V, the Assyrian king whose forces besieged Samaria and brought the northern kingdom to its end around 722 BC (2 Kings 17:3-6). A minority instead connect the name to Salamanu, a king of Moab recorded as a tribute-payer in the annals of Tiglath-pileser III, since the specific battle Hosea references is not otherwise attested for either ruler.
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- Hosea 10:14
