The monuments and the Old Testament : evidence from ancient records . ought down with weapons; 1,121 of his chariots, 470 of hishorses, together with his camp, I took from him. To savehis life he fled ; I pursued him ; in Damascus, his royal city,I shut him up. His plantations I destroyed. As far as themountains of Hauran I marched. Towns without numberI laid waste, razed, and burnt with fire. Their innumerablespoil I carried away. As far as to the mountains of Baal-Rosh, situated close to the sea (the headland at Dog River),I marched. My royal image I set up in that place. At thattime I recei
The monuments and the Old Testament : evidence from ancient records . ought down with weapons; 1,121 of his chariots, 470 of hishorses, together with his camp, I took from him. To savehis life he fled ; I pursued him ; in Damascus, his royal city,I shut him up. His plantations I destroyed. As far as themountains of Hauran I marched. Towns without numberI laid waste, razed, and burnt with fire. Their innumerablespoil I carried away. As far as to the mountains of Baal-Rosh, situated close to the sea (the headland at Dog River),I marched. My royal image I set up in that place. At thattime I received the tribute of the Tyrians and Sidonians,and of Jehu the son of Omri. 137. In this sixteenth campaign we find Shalman-eser reducing Damascus, the Hauran, and all the ter-ritory to the Mediterranean Sea. Among his tribu-tary princes or kings we find the name of Jehu sonof Omri of Israel. The black obelisk of Shalman-eser, which represents both in word and in picturesseveral nations who paid him tribute, presents usa line of tribute-bearing personages loaded down.
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