STORY OF HAMMURABBI

STORY OF HAMMURABBI (CALLED HAM)







HAMMURABBI was the sixth king of the amorite dynasty that ruled Babylon and Mesopotania circa 1894 to 1995 BC

Hammu means family
Rapi means great


The first Amore king was Sumu-abum, but little is known regarding him except that he reigned at Sippar. He was succeeded by Sumu-la-ilu, a deified monarch, who moved from Sippar to Babylon, the great wall of which he either repaired or entirely reconstructed in his fifth year. With these two monarchs began the brilliant Hammurabi, or First Dynasty of Babylonia, which endured for three centuries. Except Sumu-abum, who seems to stand alone, all its kings belonged to the same family, and son succeeded father in unbroken succession.




bible reference:
 HAMMURABBI  was also known as Amraphel
Genesis 14:1 - at the time when Amraphel was king of Shinar , Arioch king of Ellasar Kedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of Goyim







   SUMULA -ILU



babylon
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 bible reference   genesis 10:6  And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.

 SUMULA -ILU SON OF HAMMURABBI ALSO KNOWN AS CUSH 
Sumula ilu attacked and captured the city of Kish and he became known as Cush the king of the city of Kish he succeeded gis father Hammurabbi as king of babylon

Sumu-la-ilu was evidently a great general and conqueror of the type of Thothmes III of Egypt. His empire, it is believed, included the rising city states of Assyria, and extended southward as far as ancient Lagash.

Kish. city had become the stronghold of a rival family of Amoritic kings, some of whom were powerful enough to assert their independence. They formed the Third Dynasty of Kish.
 Sumu-la-ilu, a deified monarch, who moved from Kish and Sippar to Babylon, the great wall of which he either repaired or entirely reconstructed in his fifth year.  With these two monarchs began the brilliant Hammurabi, or First Dynasty of Babylonia, which endured for three centuries. Except Sumu-abum, who seems to stand alone, all its kings belonged to the same family, and son succeeded father in unbroken succession.

Sumu-la-ilu was evidently a great general and conqueror of the type of Thothmes III of Egypt. His empire, it is believed, included the rising city states of Assyria, and extended southward as far as ancient Lagash.  Sumu-la-ilu attacked and captured Kish, but did not slay Bunutakhtunila, its king, who became his vassal. Under the overlordship of Sumu-la-ilu  

The next monarch was Sin-muballit, son of Apil-Sin . He engaged himself in extending and strengthening the area controlled by Babylon by building city fortifications and improving the irrigation system. It is recorded that he honoured Shamash with the gift of a shrine and a golden altar adorned with jewels. Like Sumu-la-ilu, he was a great battle lord, and was specially concerned in challenging the supremacy of Elam in Sumeria and in the western land of the Amorites

 Shimti-Shilkhak, the father of Warad-Sin and Rim-Sin.
It was from one of these Elamite monarchs that Sin-muballit captured Isin, and probably the Elamites were also the leaders of the army of Ur which he had routed before that event took place. He was not successful, however, in driving the Elamites from the land, and possibly he arranged with them a treaty of peace or perhaps of alliance.

Pastoral nomads pressed northward through Mesopotamia and towards Canaan. As much is suggested by the Biblical narrative which deals with the wanderings of Terah, Abraham, and Lot. Taking with them their "flocks and herds and tents", and accompanied by wives, and families, and servants, they migrated, it is stated, from the Sumerian city of Ur northwards to Haran "and dwelt there". After Terah's death the tribe wandered through Canaan and kept moving southward, unable, it would seem, to settle permanently in any particular district. At length "there was a famine in the land"--an interesting reference to the "Dry Cycle"--and the wanderers found it necessary to take refuge for a time in Egypt. There they appear to have prospered. Indeed, so greatly did their flocks and herds increase that when they returned to Canaan they found that "the land was not able to bear them", although the conditions had improved somewhat during the interval. "There was", as a result, "strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle."

t was during Abraham's residence in Hebron that the Western Land was raided by a confederacy of Babylonian and Elamite battle lords.
"And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel

(Hammurabi) king of Shinar (Sumer), Arioch (Eri-aku or Warad-Sin) king of Ellasar (Larsa), Chedor-laomer (Kudur-Mabug) king of Elam, and Tidal (Tudhula) king of nations; that these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. All these joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea. Twelve years they served Chedor-laomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled." 1 Apparently the Elamites had conquered part of Syria after entering southern Babylonia.

Chedor-laomer and his allies routed the Rephaims, the Zuzims, the Emims, the Horites and others, and having sacked Sodom and Gomorrah, carried away Lot and "his goods". On hearing of this disaster, Abraham collected a force of three hundred and eighteen men, all of whom were no doubt accustomed to guerrilla warfare, and delivered a night attack on the tail of the victorious army which was withdrawing through the area afterwards allotted to the Hebrew tribe of Dan. The surprise was complete; Abraham "smote" the enemy and "pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people."

Chedor-laomer, identified with Kudur-Mabug, . One of his sons, either Warad-Sin or Rim-Sin, but probably the former, had his name Semitized as Eri-Aku, and this variant appears in inscriptions. "Tidal, king of nations", . Kudur-lahmal (Chedor-laomer) and the other gives the form "Kudur-lahgumal"


Third Dynasty of Kish

TUKULTI NINURTA

TUKULTI NINURTA BECAME KING OF ASSYRIA CIRCA 1243 - 1207 BC
NINURTA MEANS NIMROD

bible reference  Genesis 10:8 -10
And Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; wherefore it is said: 'Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar

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genesis 10:6  And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.









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