Esarhaddon's building list — Manasseh of Judah
Manasseh of Judah appears in two Assyrian kings' records as a vassal of Nineveh.
Lave'i 'i tu'a mei he Tohi TapuTohi tongi makac. 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…
- Na'e 'ilo'i
- Nineveh, Iraq — Nineteenth-century excavations
- 'Oku tauhi 'i
- British Museum, London
- Lea
- Akkadian
- Na'e a'u mai fēfē kiate kitautolu
- Na'e keli hake, pe 'oku kei tu'u 'i he potu na'e langa ai.
Ko e me'a 'oku ne fakahā
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.
Founga hono ngāue'aki 'e he kau hisitōlia
Standard evidence for Judah's status as an Assyrian vassal in the seventh century.
'I he Folofola
Fekau'aki mo
Ngaahi ma'u'anga fakamatala
- Leichty, The Royal Inscriptions of Esarhaddon (RINAP 4, 2011)
'Oku 'i he lea faka-Pilitānia 'a e ngaahi fakamatala ko 'eni he taimi ni. 'E muimui mai 'a e liliu.