ASHURBANIPAL . Son and successor of Esarhaddon on the throne of Assyria, b.c. 668 626. He is usually identified with Asnappar, Ezra 4:10 . He included Manasseh of Judah among his tributaries, and kept an Assyrian garrison at Gezer. See Assyria, Osnappar.
C. H. W. Johns.
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