Shalmaneser (King living at the time of Divided Monarchy)

Shalmaneser V ruled Assyria from about 727 to 722 BC, succeeding his father Tiglath-Pileser III. When King Hoshea of Israel withheld tribute and sought an alliance with Egypt, Shalmaneser invaded and besieged Samaria; the siege lasted roughly three years before the city fell (2 Kings 17:3-6; 18:9-11). Assyrian records are notably silent on his own account of the conquest, since he died around the time Samaria fell and his successor, Sargon II, claimed credit for the city's capture in his own inscriptions, a discrepancy that has long puzzled historians reconciling the biblical and Assyrian records. The Babylonian Chronicle independently confirms that a king by this name reigned briefly in this period, corroborating the biblical timeframe.