Asnapper
A noble Assyrian prince, who colonized the cities of Samaria
after the Israelites were taken captive to Assyria
Ezr 4:10...
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(swift), mentioned in Ezr 4:10 as the person who settled the
Cutheans in the cities of Samaria. He was probably a general
of Esarhaddon. (B.C. 712.)...
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probably the same as Assur-bani-pal (Sardanapalos of the
Greeks), styled the "great and noble" (Ezra 4:10),
was the son
and successor (B.C. 668) of Esar-haddon (q.v.). He
was
"luxurious, ambitious, and cruel, but a magnificent
patron of
literature." He formed at Nineveh a library of clay
tablets,
numbering about 10,000. These are now mostl...
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"The great and noble" (Ezra 4:10). He planted the Cuthaeans,
etc., in Samaria, after the deportation of the Israelites. He
is either Esarhaddon, as Ezra 4:2 implies, or some able
general under him who effected the plantation = Asardanaper =
Esarhaddon....
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