For _Asserhadon_ King of _Assyria_, in the 68th year of _Nabonassar_, after he had Reigned about thirty years over _Assyria_, invaded the Kingdom of _Babylon_, and then carried into captivity many people from _Babylon_, and _Cuthah_, and _Ava_, and _Hamath_, and _Sepharvaim_, placing them in the Regions of _Samaria_ and _Damascus_: and from thence they carried into _Babylonia_ and _Assyria_ the remainder of the people of _Israel_ and _Syria_, which had been left there by _Tiglath-pileser_. This captivity was 65 years after the first year of _Ahaz_, _Isa_. vii. 1, 8. & 2. _King._ xv. 37. & xvi. 5. and by consequence in the twentieth year of _Manasseh_, _Anno Nabonass._ 69. and then _Tartan_ was sent by _Asserhadon_ with an army against _Ashdod_ or _Azoth_, a town at that time subject to _Judæa_, 2 _Chron._ xxvi. 6. and took it, _Isa._ xx. 1: and this post being secured, the _Assyrians_ beat the _Jews_, and captivated _Manasseh_, and subdued _Judæa_: and in these wars, _Isaiah_ was saw'd asunder by the command of _Manasseh_, for prophesying against him. Then the _Assyrians_ invaded and subdued _Egypt_ and _Ethiopia_, and carried the _Egyptians_ and _Ethiopians_ into captivity, and thereby put an end to the Reign of the _Ethiopians_ over _Egypt_, _Isa._ vii. 18. & viii. 7. & x. 11, 12, & xix. 23. & xx. 4. In this war the city _No-Ammon_ or _Thebes_, which had hitherto continued in a flourishing condition, was miserably wasted and led into captivity, as is described by _Nahum_, chap. iii. ver. 8, 9, 10; for _Nahum_ wrote after the last invasion of _Judæa_ by the _Assyrians_, chap. i. ver. 15; and therefore describes this captivity as fresh in memory: and this and other following invasions of _Egypt_ under _Nebuchadnezzar_ and _Cambyses_, put an end to the glory of that city. _Asserhadon_ Reigned over the _Egyptians_ and _Ethiopians_ three years, _Isa._ xx. 3, 4. that is until his death, which was in the year of _Nabonassar_ 81, and therefore invaded _Egypt_, and put an end to the Reign of the _Ethiopians_ over the _Egyptians_, in the year of _Nabonassar_ 78; so that the _Ethiopians_ under _Sabacon_, and his successors _Sethon_ and _Tirhakah_, Reigned over _Egypt_ about 80 years: _Herodotus_ allots 50 years to _Sabacon_, and _Africanus_ fourteen years to _Sethon_, and eighteen to _Tirhakah_.