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sargon

sargon


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Sargon 
  (In  the  inscriptions,  "Sarra-yukin"  [the  god]  has  appointed  the 
  king;  also  "Sarru-kinu,"  the  legitimate  king.)  On  the  death  of 
  Shalmaneser  (B.C.  723),  one  of  the  Assyrian  generals  established 
  himself  on  the  vacant  throne,  taking  the  name  of  "Sargon,"  after 
  that  of  the  famous  monarch,  the  Sargon  of  Accad,  founder  of  the 
  first  Semitic  empire,  as  well  as  of  one  of  the  most  famous 
  libraries  of  Chaldea.  He  forthwith  began  a  conquering  career, 
  and  became  one  of  the  most  powerful  of  the  Assyrian  monarchs.  He 
  is  mentioned  by  name  in  the  Bible  only  in  connection  with  the 
  siege  of  Ashdod  (Isa.  20:1). 
 
  At  the  very  beginning  of  his  reign  he  besieged  and  took  the 
  city  of  Samaria  (2  Kings  17:6;  18:9-12).  On  an  inscription  found 
  in  the  palace  he  built  at  Khorsabad  near  Nieveh,  he  says,  "The 
  city  of  Samaria  I  besieged,  I  took  27,280  of  its  inhabitants  I 
  carried  away  fifty  chariots  that  were  among  them  I  collected," 
  etc  The  northern  kingdom  he  changed  into  an  Assyrian  satrapy. 
  He  afterwards  drove  Merodach-baladan  (q.v.),  who  kept  him  at  bay 
  for  twelve  years,  out  of  Babylon,  which  he  entered  in  triumph. 
  By  a  succession  of  victories  he  gradually  enlarged  and 
  consolidated  the  empire,  which  now  extended  from  the  frontiers 
  of  Egypt  in  the  west  to  the  mountains  of  Elam  in  the  east,  and 
  thus  carried  almost  to  completion  the  ambitious  designs  of 
  Tiglath-pileser  (q.v.).  He  was  murdered  by  one  of  his  own 
  soldiers  (B.C.  705)  in  his  palace  at  Khorsabad  after  a  reign  of 
  sixteen  years,  and  was  succeeded  by  his  son  Sennacherib. 
 
 
  From  Hitchcock's  Bible  Names  Dictionary  (late  1800's)  [hitchcock]: 
 
  Sargon,  who  takes  away  protection