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• (Geschiedenis) .Source 1

  Ashur-rabi II was one of the longest-reigning kings of Assyria, reigning for 41 years. Little is known about his reign, of which few records survive. He was apparently a younger son of Ashurnasirpal I. Following the reigns of his elder brother, Shalmaneser II, and his nephew Ashur-nirari IV, he became king in 1013 BC. He began his reign with setbacks; Aramaean Kings took the cities of Pitru and Mutkinu (which had been taken and colonized by Tiglath Pileser I.) This led to him forcing hisway to the Mediterranean and constructing a stele in the area of Mount Atalur.[1]
  He reigned until his death in 972 BC, where he was succeeded by his son Ashur-resh-ishi II.

• (Geschiedenis) .Source 2

  Aššur-rabi II, inscribed maš-šur-GAL-bi, “(the god) Aššur is great,”[1] was king of Assyria 1012–972 BC. Despite his lengthy reign (41 years), one of the longest of the Assyrian monarchs, his tenure seems to have been an unhappy one judging by the scanty and laconic references to his setbacks from later sources.
  Biography
  
  He was a younger son of the earlier Assyrian monarch, Aššurna?irpal I. He succeeded his nephew, Aššur-nerari IV’s brief six year rule, and if this succession was like earlier usurpations by uncles of their nephews, it would have been a violent affair. The Assyrian Kinglist[i 1][i 2][i 3] records his accession and genealogy but provides no further information. His construction of the Bit-nathi, part of the temple of Ištar in Nineveh, was recalled in a dedicatory clone of Aššur-na?ir-apli II (883–859 BC) commemorating his own repair work.[i 4]
  
  Some Assyrian settlements on the Middle Euphrates were lost to the Arameans as they were able to cross the river and establish a network of autonomous but interrelated settlements that began to encroach on the Assyrian heartland.[2] Šulmanu-ašaredu III recalled the loss of Ana-Aššur-uter-a?bat (Pitru, possibly Tell Aushariye) and Mutkinu, two towns close to Til Barsip, which had originally been taken and colonized by Tukulti-apil-Ešarra I around a hundred years earlier, in one of his inscriptions: "At the time of Aššur-rabi (II), king of Assyria, the king of Aram (Syria) took [two cities] by force — I restored these cities. I installed the Assyrians in their midst."[i 5] The king of Aram (šar4 KUR-a-ru-mu) is unlikely to have been Hadadezer of Zobah, in southern Syria, but a northern Aram in or near ?anigalbat.[3] His authority continued to stretch as far west as the ?arbur river as recorded on the cylinder[i 6] of Bel-ereš, a šangû or governor of Šadikanni,[4] somewhat contradicting the picture of Assyrian retreat and decline painted elsewhere.[5]
  
  His era must have stretched from the reigns of his Babylonian contemporaries, Simbar-Šipak (1025-1008 BC) to Nabû-mukin-apli (978–943 BC), although there is no extant contemporary proof of contact which might help fix this chronology more precisely. The Synchronistic Kinglist[i 7] gives his contemporary as Širikti-šuqamuna, a king of Babylonia who reigned just 3 months ca. 985 BC. Severe distress and famine was recorded under Kaššu-nadin-a?i (ca 1006–1004 BC), the midpoint in Aššur-rabi's reign, and this possibly points to the underlying cause of the Aramean migration.[6]
  
  He was followed on the throne by his son, the equally obscure Aššur-reši-išši II, who ruled for five years.

• A child of Ashur-Nasir-Pal I van Assyrië
• This information was last updated on December 18, 2012.

Household of Ashur-Rabi II van Assyrië

Child(ren):

1. Ashur-Resh-Ishi II van Assyrië   

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