Endnote 7 – Did King Jehu Kill His Own Family?

Hazael is referred to as a usurper (“son of a nobody”) in Shalmaneser III’s inscription from the source of the Tigris, C. Lehmann-Haupt, Materialien zur älteren Geschichte Armeniens und Mesopotamiens, Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philogisch-Historische Klasse, n.f. vol. 9, no. 3 (Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1907); it is translated in Luckenbill, Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia. The term “usurper” is also used in the inscription on Shalmaneser III’s Basalt Statue, known as the Berlin Statue, Keilschrifftexte aus Assur historischen Inhalts 1, ed. L. Messerschmidt.