Due to Isaiah’s urgent warnings ( Isa 20:1-6), Judah had not joined the coalition and was spared Sargon’s wrath. troops at the border of Egypt in 711 b.c. Later he defeated a rebellious coalition of allies including Egyp. Sargon deported 27,290 people of Samaria and ravaged the Philistine plain. Already Tiglathpileser III had taken Ashkelon. At all events, the northern kingdom was no more, and Judah lay exposed to the Assyrian menace on both the northern and western flanks. Thiele, Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings, 2nd ed. The latter claims the conquest but may have exaggerated ( see E. It has been debated whether Shalmaneser V actually conquered Samaria or whether it fell to his general and successor, Sargon II (721-705). The impending doom is recorded in the books of Amos and Hosea who were specifically commissioned as prophets to the northern kingdom, before it fell. Then began the bitter three-year siege of Samaria that destroyed the northern kingdom forever, in 722/1 b.c. Shalmaneser came W and received tribute from Hoshea ( 2 Kings 17:3), but, eventually Hoshea ventured to rebel. After Pekah, king of the northern kingdom, was murdered as a result of an internal conspiracy, Hoshea became king (731 b.c.) and served as a virtual puppet of Assyria. Shalmaneser V (726-722) followed his father, Tiglath-pileser III, and continued his policies. He had revived the old Assyrian practice of intermixing the peoples of his empire ( 2 Kings 17:6, 24).Ģ. Tiglathpileser III conquered much of Galilee and deported the two and a half tribes of that area. These campaigns are mentioned in 2 Kings 15:19-29, where Tiglath-pileser III is also called Pul-his native name witnessed in Babylonian sources. coast, and informed the world that he took the tribute of Rezin of Damascus, Menahem of Samaria, and many other kings. Tiglath-pileser III (745-727 b.c.) invaded the W, conquered the Phoen. In a previous cent., a coalition of kings including Ahab had halted an Assyrian drive in the battle of Qarqar in 854 b.c., but the Assyrians were on the march again. The period was the era of Assyria’s expansion to the W. Isaiah lived to see the menace of Assyria wane, and his faith in God’s promises to Jerusalem fully vindicated. The southern kingdom (Judah) was heavily attacked. During this period the northern kingdom fell and was taken captive. These were troublous times in Israel’s history. Late tradition asserts that the prophet was martyred in the reign of Manasseh.ġ. The book is dated in the reign of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. His name appears sixteen times in the book that bears his name. The prophet Isaiah is mentioned repeatedly in 2 Kings and three times in 2 Chronicles. the most universally cherished of the OT prophetical books. Bible, the first of the latter prophets in the Heb. The first of the major prophets in the Eng.
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