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Sargon II

A Dictionary of World History | 2000 | Copyright

Sargon II (died 705 BC) King of Assyria (721–705). He was probably a son of Tiglathpileser III, and is thought to have been named after the semi-legendary King Sargon. He is famous for his conquest of a number of cities in Syria and Palestine; he also took ten of the tribes of Israel into a captivity from which they are believed never to have returned, becoming known as the Lost Tribes of Israel (2 Kings 17:6).

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