ESAR-HADDON, the son of Sennacherib, and his successor in the kingdom of Assyria. He is called Sargon or Saragon in Isaiah. He reigned twenty-nine years, made war with the Philistins, and took Azoth from them by the conduct of Tartan the General of his army; for as to his part, he was not in this expedition. He likewise attacked Egypt, the land of Cush, and Edom, with a design in all probability to revenge the affront which Sennacherib his father had received from Tirhakah King of Cush, and the King of Egypt, who were Hezekiah’s confederates. This is that Esar-haddon who sent Priests to the Cuthæans, whom Salmanesser King of Assyria had planted in the country of Samaria, in the room of those Israelites, whom he had transported into places beyond the river Euphrates. He made war with Manasseh King of Judah, took Jerusalem, and carried the King away to Babylon, whereof he had made himself master by force, and perhaps because there was no heir of the family of Belesis King of Babylon. He is said to have reigned nine and twenty or thirty years at Niniveh, from the year of the World 3294, which was that of Sennacherib’s death, to the year 33231. Besides which, he reigned thirteen years at Babylon, in all two and forty years. He died in the year of the World 3336, and was succeeded by Saosduchinus.
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Translators’ note. Esar-haddon, in the opinion of Sir Isaac Newton, seems to be the Sardanapalus, who died, as Clearchus says, of oldage after the revolt of Syria; the name Sardanapalus beigng derived from Asserhadon. Pul. Chronology, &c. p. 285. ↩