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9th century BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (728 words) |
 | 895 BC - Death of King Xiao of Zhou, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China. |
 | 860 BC - The kingdom of Urartu is unified. |
 | 820 BC - Pygmalion ascends the throne of Tyre. |
| ANE History: Israel and the Arameans (3803 words) |
 | The same is true of his fourteenth regnal year (845 BC), when he made a supreme effort to invade central and southern Syria, as the Bull Inscription records (recorded on two large bull-colossi recovered from the center of the mound at Calah [Nimrud]). |
 | By 841 BC Hazael, an official of influence in the service of the court at Damascus, had already usurped the throne. |
 | At Jehu's death in 815 BC a renewal of Hazael's relentless attacks on Israel soon reduced his son Joahaz (815-801 BC) to such an extreme stage of abasement that the Israelite king became little more than a retainer of the Arameans (2 Kings 13:1-9, 22, 25). |