[916] T. Hodgkin, _Friends' Quarterly_, September 1893, p. 401.
[917] Jer. xxix. 25-27.
_THE KINGS OF ASSYRIA, AND SOME OF THEIR INSCRIPTIONS._
Dates from the _Eponym Canon_ and the Assyrian Monuments; Schrader, _Cuneiform Inscriptions, and the Old Testament_, E. Tr., 1888, pp. 167-187.
860.--Shalmaneser II.
854.--Battle of Karkar. War with _Ahab_ and _Benhadad_.
842.--War with Hazael. Tribute of _Jehu_.
825.--Samsi-Ramman.[918]
812.--Ramman-Nirari.
783.--Shalmaneser III.
773.--Assur-dan III.
763.--June 15th. Eclipse of the sun.
755.--Assur-Nirari.
745.--Tiglath-Pileser II.
742.--Azariah (Uzziah) heads a league of nineteen Hamathite districts against Assyria (?).
740.--Death of Uzziah (?).
738.--Tribute of Menahem, Rezin, and Hiram.
734.--Expedition to Palestine against Pekah. Tribute of Ahaz.
732.--Capture of Damascus. Death of Rezin. First actual collision between Israel and Assyria.
728.--Hoshea refuses tribute.
727.--Shalmaneser IV.
724.--Siege of Samaria begun.
722.--Sargon. Fall of Samaria.
721.--Defeat of Merodach-Baladan.
720.--Battle of Raphia. Defeat of Sabaco, King of Egypt.
715.--Subjugated people deported to Samaria. Accession of Hezekiah.
711.--Capture of Ashdod.
707.--Building of great palace of Dur-Sarrukin.
709.--Sargon expels Merodach-Baladan, and becomes King of Babylon.
705.--Assassination (?) of Sargon.
705.--Sennacherib.
704.--Embassy of Merodach-Baladan to Hezekiah.
703.--Belibus made King of Babylon.
702.--Construction of the Bellino Cylinder.
721.--Siege of Ekron. Defeat of Egypt at Altaqu. Siege of Jerusalem. Campaign against Hezekiah and Tirhakah disastrously concluded at Pelusium and Jerusalem.
681.--Murder of Sennacherib.
681.--Esar-haddon.
676.--Manasseh pays tribute.
668.--Assur-bani-pal (Sardanapalus).
608.--Death of Josiah in the battle of Megiddo against Pharaoh Necho.
The dates and names of Assyrian kings as given in _Records of the Past_ (ii. 207, 208) do not exactly accord with these in all cases.