1 jan 712 ano antes da era comum - Battle of Eltekeh

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An anti-Assyrian coalition was formed in the southern Levant which the Kushite ruler Shebitku... supported openly. Sargon's successor Sennacherib... launched an invasion of the region. ...the allied forces met the Assyrian troops in battle near the Philistine city of Eltekeh. While the outcome of the confrontation is a matter of debate, it marked an important watershed in the relations between Assyria and Kush.

Shebitku's clash with Assyria at Eltekeh signalled openly hostile relations which would eventually... lead to the Assyrian invasion of Egypt, its conquest and the end of Kushite rule over the region.

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EXAMINATION OF ANACHRONISMS IN BIBLICAL AND ASSYRIAN CHRONOLOGIES by Gerard Gertoux

...in the chronicle of Sargon II (722-705) the capture of Ashdod and the battle of Eltekeh are dated during the 10th year of his reign, in 712 BCE. This campaign is described in the Bible. For example, the capture of Lachish by Sennacherib (during his 3rd campaign) and the siege of Jerusalem are both dated in the 14th year of Judean King Hezekiah (726-697), in 712 BCE (= 726 - 14). Similarly, the battle of Eltekeh led by Nubian co-regent Taharqa under the leadership of King Shabataka (712-689), with the probable disappearance of the Egyptian king Osorkon IV (Segor in the LXX), is dated during his 1st year of reign in 712 BCE. The biblical account states that all these events occurred during the 14th year of King Hezekiah dated 712 BCE (2Ki 18:13-17, 19:9; 2Ch 32:9; Is 20:1, 36:1, 37:9).

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EXAMINATION OF ANACHRONISMS IN BIBLICAL AND ASSYRIAN CHRONOLOGIES by Gerard Gertoux

This Egyptian chronology, anchored on three dates calculated by astronomy: Psamtik III (526-525), Shabataka (712-689), Takelot II (865-840), and one date calculated by carbon-14 dating: Amenemope (1018-1009), is in perfect agreement with all the synchronisms of the chronologies of the kings of Byblos, Assyria, Judah, and Israel. All these chronologies are used by epigraphers to accurately date Phoenician inscriptions. Six biblical synchronisms with Egyptian chronology are of particularly remarkable accuracy:
• The city of Gezer was burned by Siamun (Kitchen: 2003, 108-110) 20 years after its construction (1Ki 9:10-17), which had begun in early Year 4 (1Ki 6:37-7:1), in Year 24 of Solomon, in 993 BCE.
• Flight of Jeroboam into Pharaoh Shoshenq I's country, in the last years of Solomon's reign (1Ki 11:40-42), or during the years 39 and 40 (978-977 BCE).
• Shoshenq I attacked Jerusalem in the 5th year of Rehoboam, in 972 BCE, he is called Shishaq in the Hebrew Bible (1Ki 14:25,26; 2Ch 12:2-9) and Sousakim in the Septuagint.
• Hosea II negotiated in 723 BCE with Assyrian King Shalmaneser V (727-722) and Egyptian King Osorkon IV (741-712), written So (2Ki 17:1-6) or Segor (LXX).
• Taharqa, the co-regent of Shabataka (712-689), tried to prevent Sennacherib from attacking Jerusalem (2Ki 19:8-9) in the 14th year of Hezekiah (726-697) dated to 712 BCE (2Ki 18:13-17).
• Josiah (640-609) died at Megiddo (2Ki 23:29-34), in 609 BCE, just as Necho II (609-594) arrived in that city to repel the Babylonian attack against Assyrian King Aššur-uballiṭ II (612-609).

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Joshua 21
23 and out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its pasturelands, Gibbethon with its pasturelands...

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