Esarhaddon's building list — Manasseh of Judah
Manasseh of Judah appears in two Assyrian kings' records as a vassal of Nineveh.
Named outside the BibleInscriptionc. 673 BC
Esarhaddon lists twenty-two kings of the west summoned to haul timber and stone for his palace at Nineveh. Among them is Manasseh, king of Judah. Ashurbanipal's annals later name him again among those who supplied troops.
I called up the kings of the land Hatti… Manasseh, king of Judah…
- Found
- Nineveh, Iraq — Nineteenth-century excavations
- Now held at
- British Museum, London
- Language
- Akkadian
- How it reached us
- Dug up, or still standing where it was built.
What it shows
The Assyrian texts show him as a vassal; Chronicles' account of his being taken to Babylon in fetters and returning is not recorded outside the Bible.
How historians use it
Standard evidence for Judah's status as an Assyrian vassal in the seventh century.
In Scripture
Connects to
Sources
- Leichty, The Royal Inscriptions of Esarhaddon (RINAP 4, 2011)
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