sargon

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sargon - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Sargon
  (In the inscriptions, "Sarra-yukin" [the god] has appointed the
  king; also "Sarru-kinu," the legitimate king.) On the death of
  Shalmaneser (B.C. 723), one of the Assyrian generals established
  himself on the vacant throne, taking the name of "Sargon," after
  that of the famous monarch, the Sargon of Accad, founder of the
  first Semitic empire, as well as of one of the most famous
  libraries of Chaldea. He forthwith began a conquering career,
  and became one of the most powerful of the Assyrian monarchs. He
  is mentioned by name in the Bible only in connection with the
  siege of Ashdod (Isa. 20:1).
  
    At the very beginning of his reign he besieged and took the
  city of Samaria (2 Kings 17:6; 18:9-12). On an inscription found
  in the palace he built at Khorsabad, near Nieveh, he says, "The
  city of Samaria I besieged, I took; 27,280 of its inhabitants I
  carried away; fifty chariots that were among them I collected,"
  etc. The northern kingdom he changed into an Assyrian satrapy.
  He afterwards drove Merodach-baladan (q.v.), who kept him at bay
  for twelve years, out of Babylon, which he entered in triumph.
  By a succession of victories he gradually enlarged and
  consolidated the empire, which now extended from the frontiers
  of Egypt in the west to the mountains of Elam in the east, and
  thus carried almost to completion the ambitious designs of
  Tiglath-pileser (q.v.). He was murdered by one of his own
  soldiers (B.C. 705) in his palace at Khorsabad, after a reign of
  sixteen years, and was succeeded by his son Sennacherib.