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  1. King of Assyria from 705 BC. Son of Sargon
  2. II, he rebuilt the city of Nineveh on a grand
  3. scale, sacked Babylon 689, and defeated
  4. Hezekiah, king of Judah, but failed to take
  5. Jerusalem. He was assassinated by his sons,
  6. and one of them, Esarhaddon, succeeded him.
  7.