The Assyrian captivity (or Assyrian exile ) is a period in the history of the people of Israel during which several thousand Israelis from ancient Samaria were driven into Assyria and its provinces.
Captivity
The kingdom of Israel was defeated by the Assyrian kings Tiglathpalasar III and Salmanasar V. The siege of completed (722 BC) by the next ruler of Assyria - Sargon II , thus completely destroying the Northern Kingdom. The twenty-two-year decline of this kingdom ended, in its place Assyrian regions were formed, settled by prisoners from other provinces of Assyria. The capture began around 740 BC. e. (according to other sources - 732 BC) [1] (see 1 Chronicles 5:26 , 2 Sam. :) . According to Assyrian cuneiform sources from Dur-Sharrukin , 27,290 prisoners were deported from Samaria. The southern kingdom of Judea then survived, most likely there was still an unequal alliance treaty against the northerners, concluded by Tiglathpalasar III and Ahaz .
Exile
Unlike the later exiles of the Kingdom of Judea, who were able to return from Babylonian captivity , 10 tribes of the Northern Kingdom did not receive permission to return to their homeland. Their further fate is unknown, there are many scientific and para-scientific hypotheses about this. After many centuries, the rabbis of the restored Judea continued to argue about the fate of the lost tribes [2] . Soviet assyriologists , led by I.M.
See also
- Babylonian captivity
- Samaritans
Notes
- ↑ The Books of Kings and Chronicles modern view by Umberto Cassuto and Elia Samuele Artom (1981)
- ↑ Mishnah , Sanhedrin 110b
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