Sargon II on Samaria: 27,290 taken away
The deportation of the northern kingdom and the resettlement of foreigners in Samaria are both recorded by the king who carried them out.
Lave'i 'i tu'a mei he Tohi TapuTohi tongi makac. 710 BC
Sargon II's annals, and a better-preserved prism from Nimrud, record the taking of Samaria and the deportation of 27,290 of its people, with fifty chariots kept for the royal corps and new settlers brought in.
I besieged and conquered Samaria, led away as booty 27,290 inhabitants of it… I settled therein people from countries which I myself had conquered.
- Na'e 'ilo'i
- Khorsabad and Nimrud, Iraq, 1843 — Paul-Émile Botta (Khorsabad); later excavations at Nimrud
- 'Oku tauhi 'i
- Musée du Louvre, Paris; British Museum, London; Iraq Museum, Baghdad
- 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
Assyrian royal figures are royal claims. Whether Sargon or Shalmaneser V took the city, and the exact year, remain debated.
Founga hono ngāue'aki 'e he kau hisitōlia
Standard primary source for the end of the kingdom of Israel and for Assyrian deportation policy.
'I he Folofola
Fekau'aki mo
Ngaahi ma'u'anga fakamatala
- Nimrud Prism, 720 BCE — text and translation
- Becking, The Fall of Samaria: An Historical and Archaeological Study (1992)
'Oku 'i he lea faka-Pilitānia 'a e ngaahi fakamatala ko 'eni he taimi ni. 'E muimui mai 'a e liliu.