it came to pass. Compare 2 Kings 17:3.

Shalmaneser. Commenced the siege; Sargon, his successor, completed it after three years. Compare 2 Kings 17:5; 2 Kings 17:6, where we have the same interval as here. In Saigon's own inscription he refers to the "tributes imposed upon them by the former king".

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