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SHALMANESER II

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SHALMANESER II . succeeded his See also:father See also:Assur-nazir-See also:pal III. 858 B.C. His See also:long reign was a See also:constant See also:series of See also:campaigns against the eastern tribes, the Babylonians, the nations of See also:Mesopotamia and See also:Syria, as well as See also:Cilicia and See also:Ararat. His armies penetrated to See also:Lake See also:Van and See also:Tarsus, the See also:Hittites of Carchemish were compelled to pay See also:tribute, and Hamath (See also:Hamah) and See also:Damascus were subdued. In 854 B.C. a See also:league formed by Hamath, Arvad, See also:Ammon, " See also:Ahab of See also:Israel " and other neighbouring princes, under the leadership of Damascus, fought an indecisive See also:battle against him at Karkar (Qarqar), and other battles followed in 849 and 846 (see See also:JEWS § to). In 842 Hazael was compelled to take See also:refuge within the walls of his See also:capital. The territory of Damascus was devastated, and See also:Jehu of See also:Samaria (whose ambassadors are represented on the See also:Black See also:Obelisk now in the See also:British Museum) sent tribute along with the Phoenician cities. Babylonia had already been conquered as far as the marshes of the Chaldaeans in the See also:south, and the Babylonian See also:king put to See also:death. In 836 Shalmaneser made an expedition against the Tibareni (Tabal) which was followed by one against See also:Cappadocia, and in 832 came the See also:campaign in Cilicia. In the following See also:year the old king found it needful to See also:hand over the command of his armies to the See also:Tartan (See also:commander-in-See also:chief), and six years later See also:Nineveh and other cities revolted against him under his See also:rebel son Assur-danin-pal. See also:Civil See also:war continued for two years; but the See also:rebellion was at last crushed by Samas-Rimmon or Samsi-See also:Hadad, another son of Shalmaneser. Shalmaneser died soon afterwards in 823 B.C.

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palace at See also:Calah, and the See also:annals of his reign are engraved on an obelisk of black See also:marble which he erected there. See V. Scheil in Records of the Past, new series, iv. 36-79.

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