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Rim-Agu in Empires of the Bible

Posted by Moshe Ben YAH on October 2, 2012 at 4:20 PM

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RIM-AGU IN EMPIRES OF THE BIBLE

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Rim-Agu was the son of Kudur-mabuk. His name is translated rather indefinitely. Besides the name as given in this inscription, it is translated “Riagu,” “Eriacu,” “Ri-im-agu,” and “Rim-agu.” The form that has the preference in the books is the one adopted here. His position and titles as given by himself are as follows: -

“Rim-agu, the powerful hero, the governor of Ur, King of Larsa, King of Sumir and Akkad.”

“Rim-agu, the powerful man, the high Ruler, established by Bel, nourisher of Ur, King of Larsa, king of Sumir and Akkad, son of Kudur-mabuk, the Lord of Elam.”

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The capture of the city of Karrak by Rim-agu was an event to which so much importance was attached that it was used as an era. A number of tablets were found that were dated in “the fifth,” “the sixth,” “the seventh,” “the eighth,” “the thirteenth,” and “the twenty-eighth” “year after Karrak was captured.” One of them reads: “Month Tisritu, 30th day, in the thirteenth year after Karrak, by the living ruler, Rim-agu, was captured.”[34] This proves that Karrak was a place of no little importance. Another inscription of this time is dated, “Month Abu, in the year when the River Tigris, the river of the gods, to the ocean was excavated:” which shows that Rim-agu cut a channel from the Tigris to the Persian Gulf. Another document is dated “in the year when Kisure he [Rim-agu] occupied and his powerful warriors Bel gave him in numbers, and Dur-an he conquered.” “This notice refers to a war in Upper Babylonia, both Kisure and Dur-an being in that part of the country.” - George Smith.

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Hammurabi, or Khammuragas, broke the power of Kudurmabuk and Rim-agu, and brought their kingdom to an end during their lifetime. This man was the leader of a host of invaders from the borders of Media. He and his followers composed the “horde of strangers” who “swept over the country” of Accad and dispossessed Queen Ellat-gulla of her kingdom. “After obtaining possession of Northern Babylonia, or Akkad, and fixing his capital at Babylon, Hammurabi made war on the southern portion of the country, then ruled by Rim-agu. His first attack was probably the invasion which Rim-agu claims to have repulsed; if so, however, this success only gave a short breathing time to the kingdom of Rim-agu.

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Hammurabi again attacked him; and, although the king of Larsa called in the aid of the Elamites, he and his allies were defeated in a decisive battle by Hammurabi, who now took possession of the rest of the country.” - George Smith. [36] The triumph of Hammurabi is recorded in the two following inscriptions: -

“Month Sabadu, 22nd day in the year, when Hammurabi the king, in the service of Anu and Bel triumphantly marched, and the Lord of Elam and King Rim-agu he overthrew.” “Month Nisannu in the year when Hammurabi the King in the service of Anu and Bel triumphantly marched.”

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“In spite of the brilliant reigns of Sargon and Naram-sin, who ruled in Upper Babylonia, the most important seats had hitherto been in the lower country. With the reign of Hammurabi all this was changed. . . . From the time when Hammurabi fixed his court at Babylon, that city continued to be the capital of the country down to the conquest of Babylonia by the Persians.” - George Smith. Hammurabi himself did much to give to Babylon the elements of permanency that caused it to continue a great city and a mighty capital for more than twelve hundred years. He introduced, if he did not invent, a grand system of irrigation. An embankment was built against the Tigris, and a net-work of canals was constructed to distribute the waters that were drawn from the rivers. The main canal, as repaired by the great Nebuchadnezzar, was one of the wonders of Babylon when Herodotus described it about BC. 450. Of the original of this great work, Hammurabi himself wrote thus: -

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“Hammurabi the powerful king, king of Babylon, the king renowned through the four races, conqueror of the enemies of Muruduk, the ruler of the delight of his heart am I. When Anu and Bel the people of Sumir and Akkad to my dominion gave, powerful adversaries into my hand they delivered. The river Hammurabi-nuhus-nisi (Hammurabi the delight of men) flowing waters giving pleasure to the people of Sumir and Akkad I excavated, the whole of its banks to its course I restored, the entire channel I filled, perennial waters. for the people of Sumir and Akkad I established. The people of Sumir and Akkad, their chief men I gathered, authority and possessions I established to them; delight and pleasure I spread out to them, in luxurious seats I seated them.

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Then I Hammurabi, the powerful king, blessed by the great gods, with the powerful forces which Muruduk gave me, a great wall with much earth, its top like a mountain raised, along the river Hammurabi-nuhus-nisi I made.” It will thus be seen that he not only established an excellent system of irrigation, but that he took a personal interest in distributing the people throughout the land, and training them into the enjoyment of the benefits which were thus brought within their reach. The land of Babylon was marvelously productive. Herodotus says of it that “of all the countries that we know there is none which is so fruitful in grain. It makes no pretension indeed of growing the fig, the olive, the vine, or any other tree of the kind, but in grain it is so fruitful as to yield commonly two-hundred-fold, and when the production is the greatest, even three-hundred-fold. The blade of the wheat-plant and the barley-plant is often four fingers in breadth.

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As for the millet and the sesame, I shall not say to what height they grow, though within my own knowledge; for I am not ignorant that what I have already written concerning the fruitfulness of Babylonia must seem incredible to those who have never visited the country.” - Rawlinson. [39] Having secured to two whole nations of people - Sumer and Accad - in his own time, and to untold numbers for the future, the blessings of husbandry in such a land as this, Hammurabi, of Babylon, deserves to be distinguished as one of the greatest kings of all time.

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SOURCE:

FROM THE CONFUSION OF TONGUES TO THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY

“To the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men.”

BY ALONZO TREVIER JONES

 

 

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