Halahhu lies in central Assyria: it is the territory that came to constitute the province of Sargon's new capital city of Dur-Ć arruken. Just like in 732 BC, substantial parts of the Israelite population were resettled elsewhere in the Assyrian Empire after the fall of Samaria in 722 BC. Israel controlled the Mediterranean ports to the south of the Lebanon range and the rich agricultural lands between the coast and the river Jordan, a strategically and economically profitable position which provided a link between the route networks across the sea and the desert. Most of his immediate predecessors on the throne of Israel had been short-lived. It must remain open whether its king Ahaz had allied himself with the Assyrians only in reaction to the capture of nearby Gaza or whether this had happened already before. In the Shadow of the House of Omri(1) (c. 1000-722) . From an Assyrian perspective, however, the invasion of Israel was part of a much wider military offensive designed to establish political and economic dominance over the routes across the Syrian Desert to the harbours of the Mediterranean. (Mark 8:34-36).
Together with the kingdoms of Hamat and Damascus, it dominated the political landscape of Syro-Palestine in the 9th and 8th centuries BC and, like them, it eventually fell victim to the Assyrian expansion to the Mediterranean. This page was last modified on 19 January 2008, at 19:38. This Philistine city became the centre of the most southern of Assyria's provinces on the Mediterranean coast. Very unusually, it was allowed to retain its group identity and organisational structure. He overcame a civil war. At this time Elisha sent the young prophet Jonah to Ramoth-Gilead to secretly anoint the commander of the Jewish armies, Jehu, as the next king of Israel.The prophet Jonah hastened to Ramoth-Gilead, where he found Jehu surrounded by his captains. A hand-selected 200 (later versions: 50) chariot crews of the famous Samaritan chariot corps made the cut according to the inscriptions of Sargon II; the remainder of the troops were discharged. This verse is a recapitulation of what was more fully stated before, Judah's sin and consequent punishment. And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they lay siege to Tirzah. Our lives will elicit the commendation from Christ, "Well done, good and faithful servant" (Matt 25:21) when we faithfully invest our lives so as to earn an eternal return. This cut off Syro-Palestine from the important overland connection to Anatolia and caused an intensification of commercial, and consequently political, interests in Egypt and the Arabian peninsula. But praise of Christ lasts forever. The Assyrian conquest of southern Palestine continued when Ashdod was defeated in 711 BC. Israel's relations with Assyria oscillated between neutral, cordial and hostile.
Israel's northern territories came under direct Assyrian rule.
He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.
The House of Omri. By many accounts Omri had gained the world.
He had settled on what was ultimately trivial. Both are mentioned on steles and inscriptions of foreign powers. (2 Kings 16:7-9). Damascus) and of the king of Israel, who are attacking me'.
But Jesus cuts through this spiritual calculus by explaining, "For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world but to forfeit his soul?" (Tiglath-pileser III 44, 17-18), "The land Bit-Humri (= Israel): I brought to Assyria [...], its auxiliary army, [...] and an assembly of its people. Davis then adds, "The Bible's account is as scintillating as an obituary."[1].
Omri had walked the well-worn paths of Jeroboam.
Omri won the day when Zimri burned the palace down over his own head and perished in the flames. He established a new capital in Samaria. To do it, he might have made a military treaty with King Ithobaal I of Tyre, involving the marriage of his son Ahab to Ithobaal's daughter Jezebel.
From the. 13:44-46).
In 732 BC, the kingdom of Damascus lost its independence and existence, its holdings carved up into Assyrian provinces.