Ashurbanipal Defeats Elam
- Dates
- 645 BC
One of Assyria's chief enemies were the Elamites. Ashurbanipal conquers the city in 645 B.C. and many of its people are deported to other places in Assyria, including Samaria, spoken of in Ezra 4:9, 10.
Bible passages
- Ezra 4:9-10
9 Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites, 10 And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnappar brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest that are on this side the river, and at such a time.
- Ezekiel 32:24
There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
Text of the King James Version.
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