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 | | In these as in other campaigns to the north, east, and Babylonian south, the Assyrians wanted not so much permanent conquest as the neutralization of external threats and the acquisition of booty and prisoners, which could then be used in building projects such as Ashurnasirpals grandiose reconstruction of the city of calah. |
 | | With Assyria and the Aramaeans thus weak, it is no surprise that in the latter years of this phase Israel and Judah were able to expand their territories significantly, under their kings Jeroboam II (2 Kings 14:23-29) and Uzziah (2 Chron. |
 | | Assyrias troubles were reversed in the third and climactic phase of the Neo-Assyrian period, the century (744-627) of Tiglath-pileser III, Shalmaneser V, Sargon II, Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, and Ashurbanipal. |
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