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| | BIBLE & SPADE: Ch XII- The Assyrian Advance |
 | | Henceforth the policy of Nineveh aims relentlessly at the utter destruction of her troublesome neighbours in the west, and we hear for the first time of those wholesale deportations, which became so characteristic of the Assyrian and Babylonian conquerors. |
 | | When Tiglath-Pileser marched westward in 738 BC, the political situation was as follows: Israel under Menahem, the prosperous days of Jeroboam II now far behind, was once more fraternizing with Rezin king of Syria, and hoping to induce Judah to join in a north-Palestinian alliance against the menace from the east. |
 | | At the time of which we are now speaking, namely, about 724 BC, he was not yet, as a matter of fact, king of Egypt: we shall see that the inscriptions of 720 BC still speak of him as tartan of Egypt. |
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