The monuments and the Old Testament : evidence from ancient records . l, that crossed the Euphrates, foraged upon itsfertile fields, and stormed and captured its confederacy met by Shalmaneser II at Karkarwas largely made up of Aramaeans, most of them fromthis northern territory. One of the points of interestin this section of Syria was Samal, a city or countrytwice mentioned by Tiglath-pileser III. Its king,Panammu II, allied himself with the Assyrian king,and was rewarded therefor by a gift of some townsnear Gurgum. He afterward died in the Assyriancamp before Damascus (in 733 B.
The monuments and the Old Testament : evidence from ancient records . l, that crossed the Euphrates, foraged upon itsfertile fields, and stormed and captured its confederacy met by Shalmaneser II at Karkarwas largely made up of Aramaeans, most of them fromthis northern territory. One of the points of interestin this section of Syria was Samal, a city or countrytwice mentioned by Tiglath-pileser III. Its king,Panammu II, allied himself with the Assyrian king,and was rewarded therefor by a gift of some townsnear Gurgum. He afterward died in the Assyriancamp before Damascus (in 733 B. C). His inscrip-tion (250), with its characters cut in relief as those ofthe Hittites, was erected by himself to the sacredmemory of his father. The language of these peoples, as those east of theEuphrates, was Aramaic, a Semitic tongue closelyconnected with the Hebrew. 257. But the Aramaeans of which we hear most inthe Old Testament, were those who occupied centralSyria, with Damascus as the capital city. From thesuccessful rebellion of Rezon against the supremacy. o- o •-i -—-
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