Esarhaddon's building list — Manasseh of Judah
Manasseh of Judah appears in two Assyrian kings' records as a vassal of Nineveh.
Citado fora da BíbliaInscriçãoc. 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…
- Encontrado
- Nineveh, Iraq — Nineteenth-century excavations
- Conservado em
- British Museum, London
- Língua
- Akkadian
- Como chegou até nós
- Escavado, ou ainda de pé onde foi construído.
O que mostra
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.
Como os historiadores o usam
Standard evidence for Judah's status as an Assyrian vassal in the seventh century.
Na Escritura
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Fontes
- Leichty, The Royal Inscriptions of Esarhaddon (RINAP 4, 2011)
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