Although Sargon was the ruler of the first known empire, he is not the prototype emperor. No doubt being so early in the game with no mentor he wasn’t very good at it. The Chronicle of Early Kings documents that Sargon had ruled only about 50 years when his Hamite cousin Nimrod seized his fledgling empire with the help of “all the lands / peoples”. These included Sargon’s younger brother Ashur, who had chosen confederacy with Cousin Nimrod in building the Babylonian empire instead of joining his brother’s Akkadian empire.
Quite likely this demonstrates Ashur’s ability to coldly calculate his best odds, over any sense of obligation, a feature of every successful emperor.
This is the first biblical mention of the “Assyrian”. Since, as detailed in the relevant post, Sargon and Ashur were too early in the generations required to gather and recombine the scattered giant DNA, neither were hybrids. They were, however, alternately and essentially, voluntarily demon possessed, as documented in a temple inscription made during the biblical Ashur’s lifespan as “the king Erishum / e-ri-šu / “He hath desired – I will!” built the temple of Ashur on the site” in c. 1900/1905 BCE.
Line-drawing of a seal of Erishum with the seated figure believed to be the god Ashur, and Erishum being led towards him.
The Assyrian version of the Sumerian Enūma Eliš identifies Ashur as the primordial deity Ansar who came into being “when heaven and underworld had not been created” and even elevates Ansar in the Assyrian pantheon above Anu / Ani the Creator. From a biblical perspective, this is obviously Lucifer, “I will be like the most High!” In flagrant Luciferian rivalry with YHVH’s Chosen People the Hebrews, led by Melchizedek, upon whom he bestowed the divine right to rule over other nations, his Assyrian warriors believed that Ashur promoted those who worshiped him by intervening in battle to provide assistance and guidance.
Ashur was not acting as an architect or urban planner when he “built cities” for Nimrod. Ashur was a conqueror corralling subjugated peoples as an enslaved workforce to enrich the elite. According to the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects 2025, before WWII only 20% of people world-wide was urban, but since 1950 roughly 45% of people worldwide live in cities and another 36% in towns due to economic development which has not benefitted the workers. A staggering “trickle up” redistribution of wealth has taken place in the United States over the past half-century, according to new analysis highlighted in a recent commentary on economic inequality and political power.
From 1975 to 2023, around $79 trillion in wealth was transferred from the bottom 90 per cent of Americans to the richest 1 per cent, based on research from RAND cited in the piece. The trend has not slowed. In 2023 alone, $3.9 trillion was effectively siphoned from working Americans to the wealthiest households, an amount that could have delivered roughly a $32,000 pay rise to every full-time worker in the bottom 90 per cent for that year.
Following the overthrow of Sargon’s Akkadian empire and the collapse of Nimrod’s temple-tower at Babylon “Out of that land went forth the human-possessing god Asshur and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, And Resen.” (Genesis 10:11-12). Archeological records show that he also built the city of Ashur, named as the center of the god’s worship, along with Bad-tibiara, Larak, Sippar, and Shuruppak, and Eridu.
Historically, the Assyrian Empire is considered the greatest of the ancient Mesopotamian empires because the most successful because the most vicious because the most Satanic.
Ashur-uballit I (r. c. 1363–1328 BC) conquered an increasingly large stretch of territory in Mesopotamia, Anatolia / Turkey and the Levant / Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, forming the Middle Assyrian Empire, under whose leadership Assyrian military prowess became the best in the world, for a time even occupying powerful Babylonia in the south.
Assyrian expansionism and power reached its peak under Tiglath-Pileser III in the 8th century BC and the subsequent Sargonid dynasty of kings, so-called because, although not familial heirs, they identified themselves with the first known emperor, Sargon the Great of the Akkadian Empire. This demonstrates that the same demonic spirit – by name of Ashur or any other title – also indwelt the original Sargon – therefore the future iterations as well, as the same spirit of “the Assyrian.”
Sargon II (722-705 BCE) was able to bring the empire to its greatest height.
His son Sennacherib (705-681 BCE) campaigned widely and ruthlessly, conquering Israel, Judah, and the Greek provinces in Anatolia [eastern Turkey]. His sack of Jerusalem is detailed on a cuneiform block describing Sennacherib’s capture of 46 cities. Part of his account is, however, is denied by II Kings 18-19, where it is documented that Sennacherib’s army was driven from the field. The internal reliability of the Judean kings’ scribes documenting the many times they were abandoned by their God to the destruction of their enemies, and the well-known spin put on embarrassing failures by politicians of any era, certainly gives the biblical account the credibility in this contested report.
Sennacherib drove his army against Babylon, sacked it, and looted the temples…after which [two of his] sons… assassinated him.
Hmm. This too is recorded in II Kings, chapter 19, but the historian failed to mention that.
His son Esarhaddon (681-669 BCE) took the throne, and one of his first projects was to rebuild Babylon – again repeating the actions of Akkadian Sargon the Great. He issued an official proclamation which claimed that Babylon had been destroyed by the will of the gods owing to the city’s wickedness and lack of respect for the divine.
Hmm. This too is recorded in the biblical record. Hundreds of times.
Sargon II and his three immediate successors Sennacherib (r. 705–681 BC), Esar-haddon (r. 681–669 BC) and Ashur-banipal (r. 669–631 BC), are generally regarded as three of the greatest Assyrian monarchs. Under their direction the Neo-Assyrian Empire stretched from Egypt, Libya and Arabian Peninsula the south to the Caucasus in the north, and Persia in the east to Cyprus in the west and Babylonia was recaptured.
The last great historical Assyrian king, Ashurbanipal (668-627 BCE) was the most literate of the Assyrian rulers and is probably best known in the modern day for the vast library he collected at his palace at Nineveh.
This overview of the God Of War must be overlaid on Daniel’s vision of the History Of World Ward.
