. Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851. On one ofthem, representing war-chariots following the king, is an in-scription in which Dr. Hincks detected the name of Mena-hem, king of Israel, who is mentioned amongst other princespaying tribute to Tiglath Pileser in tlie eighth year of his reign. |! • Nineveh and its Remains, p. 272. + Their names, acconling to Sir H. Rawlinson, were Shalman-ussur(the 3rd), Asshur-danin-il (the 2nd), and Asshur-zala-Khus. % I Chron. v. 26, 2 Kin«(s, xv. 29. Of the name of Pul. king ofAssyria, who is
. Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851. On one ofthem, representing war-chariots following the king, is an in-scription in which Dr. Hincks detected the name of Mena-hem, king of Israel, who is mentioned amongst other princespaying tribute to Tiglath Pileser in tlie eighth year of his reign. |! • Nineveh and its Remains, p. 272. + Their names, acconling to Sir H. Rawlinson, were Shalman-ussur(the 3rd), Asshur-danin-il (the 2nd), and Asshur-zala-Khus. % I Chron. v. 26, 2 Kin«(s, xv. 29. Of the name of Pul. king ofAssyria, who is mcntionetl in Chronicles and in 2 Kings (.xv. 19, 29), ashaving carried away thejews, no trace has hitherto been found in the cnnei-form inscriptions. This fact has led to the conjecture that he was identicalwith Tiglath Pileser. The arguments for and against this identifi»ationare stated in Rawlinsons Ancient Monarchies,vol. ii. 386-389. § See Nineveh and its Remains, p. 275. Ij This very important and interesting discovery was first announcedby Dr. Hincks in the Athenaeum for January 3, 36o NINEVEH AND BAB\j^Ui^. [Chap. Unfortunately the fragmentary state of the monuments andbas-reliefs of this king prevents the restoration, in a completeshape, of his annals. He appears, in the first year of hisreign, to have carried his arms into Babylonia and Chaldsea,where he received the submission of a king bearing thefamiliar biblical name of Merodach Baladan.* It cannot beascertained clearly from the inscriptions, in what year of hisreign he undertook his expedition into Syria and has been conjectured th^t it was in the fourth. He sub-dued Samaria (in which Menahem reigned), Damascus, Tyre(whose king bore the name of Hiram), and, apparently,some of the Arab tribes inhabiting Arabia Petraea and theSinaitic peninsula, who were ruled by a queen. His cam-paign against Pekah, king of Israel, described in the SecondBook of Kings,t during which he captured several Je
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