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   ocr: In eariy wars Assyrian conquerors had exterminated their enemies, but in later years they adopted the new technique of deporting their victims and replacing them with foreigners from other conquered cerritories. The radical uisruption of their societies tended to keep conquered peoples from regrouping and rising up as a new threat. In keeping with that policy, Assyria deported 27,290 captives from the land of Israel, dispersing the "ten lost tribes of srael." These emigrés the Assyrians replaced with foreigners who formed I new identity as "Samaritans, a a group that existed in New Testament t ...