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                    738 ...     Menahem is           . . .     mentioned as tributary to Assyria.     738 737 c. ...     Pekahiah.                           736 c. Ahaz.     Pekah, the Gileadite.                           735 Ahaz is attacked both by Pekah and       . . .     by Rezin of Damascus (Isa. vii.). ...     735 734 ...     Captivity of Gilead, Galilee, etc.,           . . .     . . . by Assyria (Isa. viii., ix.).     734 733 ...     ...           ...     Damascus besieged and taken by Assyria.     733 732 Ahaz pays homage     . . .           . . .     at Damascus to the King of Assyria.     732 731 ...     ...           ...     ... Tiglath-Pileser becomes King of Babylon under the name of Pul.     731 730 c. ...     Hoshea.                           727 c. Hezekiah.     ...           Isaiah.     ... Shalmaneser IV.     727 725 ...     Siege of Samaria begins.                           722 or 1 ...     Fall of Samaria.           ...     ... Sargon takes Samaria.     722 or 1 720 or 19 ...     ...           ...     Gaza overthrown by Sargon as he marches past Judah and defeats Egypt at Raphia.     720 or 19 715 ...     Samaria peopled           . . .     . . . by subjugated tribes deported from Assyria.     715 711 ...     ...           ...