CIVILIZATION
ASSYRIAN
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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they did not heed the warning of the Lord
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they did not pay tribute to Sennacherib
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they lost a great war
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they chose to go
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Detailed explanation-1: -From an Assyrian perspective, however, the invasion of Israel was part of a much wider military offensive designed to establish political and economic dominance over the routes across the Syrian Desert to the harbours of the Mediterranean.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the Hebrew Bible, the captivity in Babylon is presented as a punishment for idolatry and disobedience to Yahweh in a similar way to the presentation of Israelite slavery in Egypt followed by deliverance.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Assyrian captivity (or the Assyrian exile) is the period in the history of ancient Israel and Judah during which several thousand Israelites from the Kingdom of Israel were forcibly relocated by the Neo-Assyrian Empire. This is one of the many instances of the resettlement policy of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 721 B.C. Assyria swept out of the north, captured the Northern Kingdom of Israel, and took the ten tribes into captivity. From there they became lost to history. Assyria, named for the god Ashur (highest in the pantheon of Assyrian gods), was located in the Mesopotamian plain.