Tartan: An Assyrian General
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2 Kings 18:17
And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.
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Isaiah 20:1
In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
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Strong's Hebrew
8661. Tartan -- general, commander (title of an Assyr. general)
... general) NASB Word Usage commander (1), Tartan (1). Tartan. Of foreign derivation;
Tartan, an Assyrian -- Tartan. 8660, 8661. Tartan. 8662 . Strong's Numbers
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The Assyrian Revival and the Struggle for Syria
... pal now used it as a rallying-place for the remaining Assyrian families, to ... in Khamanu,*
which had for some time held out against the general movement, was at ...
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The Rise of the Assyrian Empire
... in the inscription of Baal of Lebanon, and in the Assyrian inscriptions of the ... local
affair, and had nothing in common with the general catastrophe occasioned ...
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Tiglath-Pileser iii. And the Organisation of the Assyrian Empire ...
... Former Assyrian invasions had, as a general rule, taken an oblique course towards
some of the spurs of this formidable chain, and had endeavoured to neutralise ...
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How Sennacherib Made an Expedition against Hezekiah; What
... Accordingly, the Assyrian king took it, and yet had no ... and Ethiopians, he left his
general Rabshakeh, and ... of the two other commanders were Tartan and Rabsaris. ...
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Sennacherib (705-681 BC )
... Sennacherib was encamped at Lachish; but the Tartan and his two ... the wall!" Instead,
however, of granting their request, the Assyrian general advanced towards ...
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The Power of Assyria at Its Zenith; Esarhaddon and Assur-Bani-Pal
... did not keep the territories that Sargon had conquered, and that the Assyrian frontier
became contracted on that side; whereas the general testimony of the ...
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Sargon of Assyria (722-705 BC )
... an unwavering loyalty to the Assyrian sovereigns. ... and Moab were influenced by the
general movement, and ... Sargon despatched the Tartan,** and the rapidity with ...
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Babylonia and Assyria
... Cyrus himself arrived and proclaimed a general amnesty, which ... the contemporaneous
records of the Assyrian kings. ... him was the Turtannu or Tartan, the commander ...
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