Assyria takes Samaria; northern kingdom falls
About this date: Shalmaneser V began the siege; Sargon II claimed Samaria's capture in his first year. The precise attribution of the final conquest is debated.
Assyrian conquest ends the northern kingdom of Israel and brings deportations and imperial resettlement.
People
- Hoshea
- Shalmaneser V
- Sargon II
Scripture
- 2 Kings 17 — Kings recounts Assyria's capture of Samaria and gives a theological explanation for Israel's fall.