Editing Shalmaneser III (section)

===Against Israel===
[[File:Jehu-Obelisk-cropped.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Jehu]] bows before Shalmaneser III.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kuan |first1=Jeffrey Kah-Jin |title=Neo-Assyrian Historical Inscriptions and Syria-Palestine: Israelite/Judean-Tyrian-Damascene Political and Commercial Relations in the Ninth-Eighth Centuries BCE |date=2016 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=978-1-4982-8143-0 |pages=64–66 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zMOqCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA65 |language=en}}</ref> This is "the only portrayal we have in ancient Near Eastern art of an Israelite or Judaean monarch".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cohen |first1=Ada |last2=Kangas |first2=Steven E. |title=Assyrian Reliefs from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II: A Cultural Biography |date=2010 |publisher=UPNE |isbn=978-1-58465-817-7 |page=127 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uRKU0YXBWtgC&pg=PA127 |language=en}}</ref>]]

In 841 BC, Shalmaneser campaigned against Hadadezer's successor [[Hazael]], forcing him to take refuge within the walls of his capital.<ref name="Bryce2014">{{cite book|author=Trevor Bryce|title=Ancient Syria: A Three Thousand Year History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=41-MAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR14|date=6 March 2014|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-100293-9|page=14}}</ref> While Shalmaneser was unable to capture Damascus, he devastated its territory, and [[Jehu]] of Israel (whose ambassadors are represented on the [[Black Obelisk]] now in the [[British Museum]]), together with the [[Phoenicia]]n cities, prudently sent tribute to him in perhaps 841 BC.<ref name="Lamb2007">On the year that Jehu sent tribute, see {{cite book|author=David T. Lamb|title=Righteous Jehu and His Evil Heirs: The Deuteronomist's Negative Perspective on Dynastic Succession|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s0YTDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA34|date=22 November 2007|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-923147-8|page=34}}</ref> [[Babylonia]] had already been conquered, including the areas occupied by migrant [[Chaldaea]]n, [[Sutean]] and [[Aramean]] tribes, and the Babylonian king had been put to death.<ref>Georges Roux - Ancient Iraq</ref>