(Nubian, Sabako), an Ethiopian king who brought Egypt under his sway. He was bribed by Hoshea to help him against the Assyrian monarch Shalmaneser (2 Kings 17:4). This was a return to the policy that had been successful in the reign of Jeroboam I.
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Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.