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Erich Lessing

Sargon II, who came to the throne in 721 B.C.E., quashed a rebellion in Samaria and “took as booty 27,290 people who lived there.” Sargon’s deportations, unlike those initiated by Tiglath-pileser, were bi-directional: He settled the Samarians in Assyria and then repopulated Samaria with deportees from other lands.