Assyria
Assyrian Archers
Blinding Prisoners
Impaled Prisoners
Jehu Relief
King Hunting
Lachish Captives
Assyrian Slinger
Trodden Under Foot
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Sargon II in Royal Fashion Limestone Sculpture. 2 feet 11 inches tall
from Khorsabad, and is now in the Museo di Antichita, Turin. It is a
portrait of Sargon II preserved in history. The nose, eyebrows, and eyes
are distinctive. Sargon's hair is dressed in royal fashion. His beard is
curled all over, his moustache at the sides, his ear-ring is in the form
of a cross.
This was Sargon II, conqueror of the capital of the northern kingdom
of Israel. His portrait has been preserved on this limestone relief for
over two thousand five hundred years.
5- "Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land,
and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
6 - In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and
carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor
[by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
7 - For [so] it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the
LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from
under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
8 - And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out
from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which
they had made.
9 - And the children of Israel did secretly [those] things that [were]
not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in
all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
10 - And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and
under every green tree:
11 - And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as [did] the
heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked
things to provoke the LORD to anger:
2 Kings 17:5-11
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