Synchronisms between Assyrian and Biblical History.

B.C.
Battle of Qarqar; Shalmaneser II defeats Hadadezer of Damascus, Ahab of Israel, &c.853
Campaigns against Hadadezer of Damascus850-845
Campaign against Hazael of Damascus; tribute paid to Shalmaneser by Jehu 'the son of Omri'41
Damascus captured by Rimmon-nirari III; tribute paid by Samaria804
Pul, who takes the name of Tiglath-pileser III, usurps the throne, April745
War with Hamath; submission of Uzziah; fall of Arpad843-840
Tribute paid to Tiglath-pileser (Pul) by Menahem of Samaria and Rezon of Damascus738
Damascus besieged; the tribes beyond the Jordan carried away; Jehoahaz (Ahaz) of Judah becomes an Assyrian vassal734
Pekah put to death; Hosea succeeds733 (? 729)
Damascus captured; Rezon slain; Ahaz at Damascus732
Capture of Samaria by Sargon722
Embassy of Merodach-baladan to Hezekiah712
Capture of Ashdod by the Assyrians711
Campaign of Sennacherib against Judah701
Murder of Sennacherib681
Manasseh of Judah tributary to Esar-haddon676
Destruction of Thebes (No-Amon) in Egypt by the Assyrians665
Babylonian invasion of Egypt567

The Principal Deities of Babylonia and Assyria.

Arm (Sumerian Ana), the sky-god of Erech, and wife Anat.
Bel the elder (Sum. Mul-lil or El-lil), the earth-god of Nipur, and wife Beltis.
Ea, the water-god of Eridu, and wife Dav-kina.
Bel-Merodach (Maruduk) of Babylon, the son of Ea, and wife Zarpanit.
Istar, the goddess of the evening-star, the daughter of Sin.
Sin, the Moon-god of Ur, the son of Bel of Nipur.
Samas, the Sun-god, the son of Sin; also called Â.
Rimmon (Rammanu) or Barqu (Sum. Mer), the air-god.
Uras[ [10], the warrior-god of Nipur, the minister of the elder Bel.
Nebo (Nabu), 'the prophet' of Borsippa, the minister of Merodach.
Tasmit, 'the hearer,' the wife of Nebo.
Nusku, a Sumerian deity identified with Nebo.
Nergal, the warrior-god of Kutha.
Assur, the national-god of Assyria.

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Footnotes

[ [1] In Dapper's Circumstantial Description of Asia, it is stated that opposite Mosul is 'a little town called up to the present day by Arab writers Nennouwi, and by the Turks Eski Mosul,' or Old Mosul.