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Origin of the name SENNACHERIB.
Etymology of the
name SENNACHERIB.
Meaning of the baby name SENNACHERIB.
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| SENNACHERIB. Sin-akhi-erba,
"Sin has multiplied her brothers." A younger son of
Sargon. He succeeded his father, B.C. 705, and defeated an
insurrection in Babylonia, headed by Merodach-Baladan, shortly after; upon
which Bel-ibni was made king of Babylonia. After the conquest of the
Kassi and of Ellipi (Ispahan), Sennacherib invaded Palestine, B.C. 701,
captured Zidon and other Phenician cities, took Askelon and its king Zidka,
obliged the revolters in Ekron to receive back their king Padiah (who had
been kept a prisoner in Jerusalem by Hezekiah), defeated the Egyptian and
Ethiopian forces at Eltakeh, and overran Judaea, taking forty-six
fortified cities, and large quantities of cattle and treasure, and
carrying 200,150 persons into captivity. Hezekiah sent thirty
talents of gold and 800 talents of silver, besides other treasures, in the
hope of making peace; Sennacherib, however, gave portions of the Judaean
territory to the Philistine princes, and sent a force to besiege
Jerusalem. This having been destroyed (2 King xix. 35), Sennacherib
returned to Nineveh, and in the following year (B.C. 700), drove
Merodach-Baladin out of Babylonia to Nagitu, at the mouth of the Eulaeus,
overthrew Suzub, who had revolted in Southern Babylonia, and made his own
eldest son, Assur-nadin-suma, king of Babylon. The tribes in the
North, from Lake Van to Cilicia, were next reduced, and in B.C. 697
Sennacherib had a fleet built and manned by Phenicians, in the Persian
Gulf, with which he destroyed Nagitu. A revolt had meanwhile broken
out in Babylonia, under Suzub, but it was soon repressed, and Erech
sacked. About B.C. 695, Sennacherib finished his great palace at
Nineveh, and two or three years later overthrew the combined forces of
Suzub and Ummanminan of Elam, in a decisive and bloody battle at Khalule.
In B.C. 691 Babylon was besieged and razed to the ground. In
December, B.C. 681, Sennacherib was murdered by his two eldest sons,
Adrammelech and Nergal-sharezer. (An Archaic Dictionary, Cooper,
1876).
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