The Stomach-Churning Punishments Of The Assyrian Empire

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Of all the warlike peoples of history, few have earned such a brutal reputation as the Assyrians. Hailing from part of Mesopotamia, roughly in modern-day Iraq, the Assyrians forged a series of empires that were some of the great powers of the ancient world. The greatest of these empires was the Neo-Assyrian Empire which existed from the late 10th to late 7th centuries BC. In its day, it was the largest empire the world had yet seen, stretching from Egypt to Syria, from the Levant back into Mesopotamia.
Today, we explore the brutal punishments inflicted on enemies, rebels, and criminals in order to build and sustain this mighty empire, and learn why the Assyrians have their fearsome reputation.
Conquest
Like many other ancient powers, the Bronze Age collapse of the 12th and 11th centuries led to a decline in the power of the long-standing Assyrian state. It was not until the reign of King Adad Nirari (~912-891 BC) that Assyria bounced back in what modern historians call the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Mirari reconquered many of the lands once lost, including Babylon, but it was his successors, especially Ashurnasirpal II (884-859 BC) who turned Assyria into a superpower. Ashurnasirpal extended Assyrian power into the Levant and Canaan. Other great kings like Tiglath-pilesar III and Esarhaddon would conquer Syria and even Egypt for a time.
These conquests required significant military resources. The armies of Assyria were called the “Hosts of the God Assur”, named after Assyria’s patron deity, who also gave his name to the traditional Assyrian capital of Assur. These armies were comprised of foot soldiers, archers, charioteers, and advanced siege equipment that made Assyria the deadliest military force the world had yet seen. The Assyrian army crushed countless foes on the battlefield or slaughtered them in the streets of the cities they conquered.
Inevitably these conquests involved massacres, looting, rape, executions, and slavery, as with all ancient empires. But why are the Assyrians seen as uniquely brutal compared to other empires? Monuments and inscriptions from the time show the Assyrians inflicting and celebrating unusually horrific punishments that have earned them a sinister reputation.
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[@ADayInHistoryOfficial]

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[@Bambino_60]

“The stomach-churning punishments of the Assyrians” Mexican Cartels- “hold my Corona”

[@edgewizz862]

Nah

[@The_hidden-Life]

nah

[@deryngosson4796]

May everyone who faced these and other tortures rest in peace 🕊️💔

[@edwardr5084]

ROFL Because that's how it works.

[@HeisenbergFam]

Centuries later and it appears history likes to repeat itself with punishments being vile and empires clashing for power

[@d.m6614]

I belive it was Terence mckenna who once said : you may read 1645 and think,thank god its not like that today, but the truth is that the only difference between then and now, is that we dress better;)

[@jonhall2274]

What do you mean by "Centuries later"? In my opinion, It never stopped!😂

[@MoRoKeiFrOd]

Ok, I’ll say your name

[@arasharam7264]

Exactly and that’s how the devil works it’s dark magic on mankind!

[@grandcanyon-pg2px]

NATO and BRICS are next in line

[@TheBaBaTV]

I’m ethnic Assyrian indigenous natives to north Iraq Nineveh ! We are Christian’s and speak old Aramaic!, this was ancient times but my ancestors gave a lot to humanity !

[@user-fl5mq9kp7g]

Jesus: A new Christian sect founded by the English devils. What did you offer? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@axelmegaton5115]

We do not speak Aramaic Hajwan. We speak Assyrian/Ashuri.

[@rennor3498]

Ironic how Assyrians are described in the Bible as enemies of Judea and how they were responsible for many evils being done against the tribes of Israel, no one could have forseen that today's Assyrians, whose community has survived surprisngly stable after the eradication of their Empire are majority Christians.

[@benavraham4397]

When Jonah prophecied to the Assyrians, they repented right away. There was some good in the Assyrians.

[@joshuab2437]

@@benavraham4397 God transforms whomever He chooses to conform to His Son.

[@thetartanu1535]

The ancient Assyrians were really unlucky when it comes to their Geographical location as they were utterly and completely surrounded enemies. To the north Urartu, Scythians, Cimmerians and several Anatolian states. To the east Elamites, Medes, Mannaeans and Persians. To the south the always rebellious Babylonians and the Arabs(qedarites) and to the west the warlike Arameans and the untrustworthy Canaanites(Phoenicians) and even further west the Egyptians. Honestly it's a miracle they survived as long as they did.

[@user-cg2tw8pw7j]

But they are from the Amorites and they came from the land of Canaan 😂😂😂😂😂

[@yaqo6577]

@@user-cg2tw8pw7jand you are a Kurd from balochistan who calls bread “naan”

[@Kaiserboo1871]

Their geography reminds me of Germany in the 1870s - 1940s. Both were surrounded by enemies. Both were militaristic and imperialistic Both ended up with genocidal regimes that committed atrocities at a scale never before seen in history up to that point.

[@GokuBlackkkkkk]

​@@user-cg2tw8pw7jnah bro

[@uberfeel]

Ironic, because their geography was the reason why they survived the invasion of the sea people. Them and Egypt were the only two empires who survived their invasion.

[@grumpycouch6403]

Judith was killing Holofernes.... she was killing the Assyrian general in that painting. I'm not sure why it was used to illustrate the ruthlessness of Assyrian punishment.

[@ElderIsBackAgain]

I’m an Assyrian and even I’m disgusted lol

[@MelodyThe3rd]

I’ve been having goosebumps every 5 seconds of watching this 😭😭

[@KanuniSuleyman4857]

Your more like American or European not pure Assyrian. Just like some Europeans claiming they're israelites 😂

[@erisheshkar]

@@KanuniSuleyman4857or Turks claiming their ancestors were nomads from Central Asia lol when they’re a mixture of people from confining countries

[@KanuniSuleyman4857]

@@erisheshkar If you consider turks as only people from turkey, then I suggest that you should study geography well

[@user-fl5mq9kp7g]

​@GazalFayhan-kl8cuNo, this is a modern Christian sect

[@cherrybomber69]

RIP to all the babies and children who had to suffer and die for no reason, past and present

[@maryannhope8276]

Interesting. Thank you for sharing.

[@gabikassen270]

‘None were so brutal as the Assyrians’…. Me as an Assyrian in modern day time 😅😅😅😅

[@maassrddd]

💀💀💀

[@broadminded7774]

You're not a "Assyrian" you are an Arap!

[@loneranger7271]

What makes u that today? Syrian?

[@gabikassen270]

@@loneranger7271 Nope, we identify as Assyrians. We are not Arabs like the population of Syria

[@dosidicusgigas1376]

​@@gabikassen270 Interesting, I thought Arabs were descendants of Assyrians. My family is from the middle east, but they are arabs. Ill have to read more about Assyrian history in that regard

[@ourdailybread1099]

God bless my Assyrian brothers and sisters. We repented, all glory to God, he is mercifull.

[@kevinbobo9185]

Isaiah 19:22-25, In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the land: Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance. GOD loves you and your people, and will restore your land to you, and bless you.

[@afah6850]

@@kevinbobo9185 he's talking about islam, not a pagan religion

[@anytajp7419]

@@afah6850 Assyrians are Christian.

[@HusseinAliAl-Shami]

@@afah6850 Those Assyrians are the first NATION to convert WILLINGLY to Christianity after their king was healed by Jesus from a deadly disease.

[@afah6850]

@@HusseinAliAl-Shami Jesus was a Prophet of God who willingly submit to The Lord of the worlds. Most likely those assyrians didn't worship jesus like the way you think they did. You really believe the Almighty decided one day that he was going to decide himself a gender, and be birth through a vagina of a 12 year old girl and be vulnerable and had to be taken care off? How degrading is it for God????

[@ryancafferty3302]

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[@damarysdingui]

For real, you always bring the most heart wrenching contents.. Thanks for the upload..💖

[@wololo4761]

I feel bad for winning so many battles in Age of Empires using the Assyrians....

[@tac7826]

Next time use Baghdad.

[@dritzzdarkwood4727]

We're such a lovely species.......

[@helloimskip]

All matters of life on earth is guilty of horrific treatment towards their kind, we humans are just blessed and cursed of being aware of it and it indeed sucks

[@spenjak18]

@@helloimskip Also, ants and chimps are equally as scary. Remember, war isn't exclusively a human concept.

[@jonkline709]

I love this stuff. Thank you

[@auadisassyrian3721]

The punishments you mentioned were used by most of the forces in the ancient history even in middle ages Europe

[@dosidicusgigas1376]

I think what seperates the Assyrians from other empires was the scale of the punishments implemented. That being said the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians and many others also practices brutal and large scale torture and violence, crucifixion being a strong example.

[@zxera9702]

Assyrians used them casually and considered a responsibility to do this

[@Kaiserboo1871]

Yeah, it wasn’t so much what they did that made them uniquely brutal, but rather it was the large a scale they did it in. It’s kind of like with the Nazis. The Nazis weren’t the First Empire in the world to conduct genocide, but they were the first to do it on such a massive and industrialized scale.

[@manawa3832]

everyone did it but when you read ancient chronicles one name seems to stand out as the most feared. assyrians

[@assyriancomedycentral1753]

Assyrians were smart enough to install fear to their enemies. But a lot of people need to understand that the Assyrians always gave people a chance to become part of the culture before they tortured or killed them. @@dosidicusgigas1376

[@mollybeecher3162]

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[@ancient_Iraqi_Mesopotamian]

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[@Pootycat8359]

3:55 Vlad the "Impaler" was more creative in dealing with Turkish POWs. He angled the stakes so they wouldn't penetrate the heart, insuring a lingering death.

[@edgewizz862]

And you think the Assyrians weren’t creative?

[@Pootycat8359]

@@edgewizz862 Overall, of course not! Just in the practice of impalement. He WAS famous as "The Impaler"!

[@edgewizz862]

@@Pootycat8359 Yeah true, sorry if that came across as rude. I read a lot of books about both when I was younger, still have them somewhere gathering dust. I always remember one account where a family was impaled together on the same stake and were made to slowly slide down or something like that and then the father was made to watch as they were flayed. I always thought it was an Assyrian account but now you have me thinking it may have been Vlad. All I know is it really disturbed me. Absolutely horrific.

[@Pootycat8359]

@@edgewizz862 No, I didn't consider it rude. As for the what you described, it sounds Assyrian, to me. I don't think Vlad was into skinning, but the Assyrians DEFINITELY were. In fact, they used human hides to make their tents.

[@sirtango1]

I don’t know who used it first but the same punishment was used in the Middle East. The offender was strapped to a board, disrobed, then the punishment began. The executioner was said to heavily grease the impalement device to help stem the bleeding. Much like the cut men in modern boxing apply Vaseline to stop cuts from bleeding on their boxers. Then the pole was driven into the rectum of the victim with a wooden mallet until it came out at the shoulder. They didn’t want to hit any major blood vessels or organs to prolong the victim’s suffering. Then the board was placed upright along the roads where the victims would beg passersby to kill them and end their suffering. They were said to live days in many cases. Finally succumbing to a combination of dehydration, blood loss, and shock.

[@benavraham4397]

That is just an amazing video!👍 I live in Galilee and have seen first hand the destruction that the Assyrians left in Megiddo, Hazor and Dan. It's good to have a clear picture of what took place here, and you provide it. On the other hand, the Assyrians brought the Aramaic language to the Holy Land and Aramaic is heard in every synogogue today starting with Kaddish and in the study of Kabbala. Israeli Hebrew has plenty of Aramaic in it. I wonder if Japan had not been defeated in WWII, perhaps it would have been like a modern Assyria? Too bad for the persecution of the modern Assyrian Christians today!

[@alkiskosh6536]

Assyrian Christians today have nothing to do with ancient Assyrian They were Nestorian Chaldeans

[@LIZZIE-lizzie]

@ Ben Avraham Aramaic is heard today in every synagogue. Where, please? Not in the States. Ask any Jew in my family, although I'm Roman Catholic. Aramaic is the language JESUS spoke. Unless you are a scholar in Ancient Languages, people today can't read or speak Aramaic. Hebrews in the States are not taught Aramaic. Father MALACHI MARTIN had two Doctorates, one in ancient languages and could read and speak Aramaic. He explains the Aramaic language in his interviews with ART BELL of Coast to Coast Radio - KZbin uploads. DOCTOR MALACHI MARTIN was one of the only people in the world with complete and full access to the Vatican Library.

[@benavraham4397]

@@LIZZIE-lizzie Thank you so much for your reply. Things are far interesting than you think. Abraham's family were Arameans. Abraham took up the Hebrew language from the Canaanites. (I don't know how the Canaanites remained speaking the Holy Language). The Assyrians and the Chaldeans in Babylon spoke Aramaic, although they had an older language of their own called Akkadian. When the Jews were exiled to Babylon, they started speaking Aramaic. EVER SINCE THE BABYLONIAN EXILE, HEBREW HAS HAD ARAMAIC MIXED INTO IT. There is no pure Hebrew any more. Hebrew and Aramaic are very close and written the same, so in Rabbinic literature, they get mixed together. The Talmud is mostly Hebrew, but at least 30% of it is Aramaic, and it is really mixed together. So it comes out, that for Jews, Aramaic looks like the language of ancient Rabbis. Commentaries on the Talmud are written the same, to this day. The foundation book of Kabbala, the mystical understanding of Judaism, is called the Zohar. The Zohar was written nearly 2000 years ago, all in Aramaic. So Kabbala has even more Aramaic in it. Altogether, the deeper Tora study is, the more Aramaic is involved. The most important little prayer said in synogogue is Qaddish (Holiness in Aramaic). It is recited between each section of the prayers, again and again, and Qaddish is entirely Aramaic. Orthodox Jews study the Hebrew language, but they kind of pick up Aramaic along the way. Once you know Hebrew, it just takes a few tweaks to get Aramaic. The Israeli Hebrew has lots of Aramaic words mixed in, because in order to expand the vocabulary for modern things, they take from Aramaic freely.

[@PrincessYiarci]

​@@benavraham4397Jesus is black. Revelation 1:14. That means the real Jews are black also.

[@dan-wb9dd]

@@PrincessYiarciI’m Assyrian.. you right

[@hateonminorities]

I greatly hate history thanks to this channel😅

[@danny24042002]

the next basement hero who thinks the past was a good time. i think we cant imagine how brutal and sick it was.

[@mannygutierrez7654]

Crazy how their ancestors were unparalleled in their brutality, and the modern Assyrians are mostly docile Christian communities that have been ravaged by genocide by the brutal Ottoman Empire

[@user-fl5mq9kp7g]

Joshua: You mean the liars, just a modern heretical sect

[@RandomNorwegianGuy.]

Yes. Many were just as brutal, if not worse. But it sound to me that Assyria, considering how ancient it is, pioneered a new scale of extreme brutality

[@dysprosiumdead5078]

To be honest the issue with assyrians were that their whole identity worked around fear, death, hatred and power. So in a way as a human you would feel extremely antagonised living under their influence. Knowing them goes to show how crazy cyrus sounded with his cylinder

[@mandybrooks5789]

I wouldn’t think there would be that many children alive. The population was very low.

[@jirieskelinen5607]

When talking about cruelty and evil empires and if the Assyrians were the worst we have to think about scale and the Assyrian empire truly did go full 11/10 on that front. Only the savages were more brutal.

[@Warmaker01]

Brutality was SOP in the ancient and medieval world, regardless of where you were. Things were simply different for that time as empires were distinctly brutal when it came down to suppressing revolts. Still, Assyria was one of the great empires of the ancient world. They possessed a powerful military machine. So much of the Near East was under their control. They had territories in what would be modern day Iraq, Iran, stretching to the Persian gulf, going west into modern day Turkey, Israel, etc. They even brought Egypt into their domain, but that was a big stretch for them to maintain control, so far.

[@Kaiserboo1871]

Imagine being so brutal and horrifying that you made the previous brutal regime of Akkad, Babylon, and the Hittites seem tame by comparison. Like, I understand that brutality was the norm in Mesopotamia, but I feel like the Assyrians took it to a whole new level. It’s kinda like comparing the brutality of Nazi Germany to the Brutality of the British Empire. Yes both of them were harsh empires that committed atrocities, but Nazi Germany was objectively more horrific.

[@danniimendes5665]

What the British empire has done is objectively worse I feel as they oppressed many countries and over a much longer period of time. Their brutality is often overlooked.

[@Kaiserboo1871]

@@danniimendes5665 No… not even close. Britain never conducted a organized and systematic genocide of a minority group just for existing. Nazi Germany brought very little to humanity, Great Britain brought a lot.

[@allen55578]

@@Kaiserboo1871operation paper clip says otherwise. The nazis were a brilliant but evil group of people

[@christianbrouwer8242]

​@@Kaiserboo1871The world's first concentration camps were invented by the British during the Boer wars in South Africa.

[@monicadiazrivera3907]

GOT, showed many forms of ancient assyrian torture methods.

[@arthurmorgan8966]

And imagine ISIS bringing back some of this to 21st century in the same land.

[@thesanfranciscoseahorse473]

Seems like they already have.

[@uberfeel]

They did

[@jamesfranklin458]

would be nice if you used more primary sources! thoroughly enjoyed the video

[@tjtjmich16p]

You can check out forgotten books to find the assyrian law. And the code of hammurabi

[@leoalphaproductions8642]

Damn, this is cartel levels of brutality.

[@glockinmypocket9854]

Nah, they still ain't touching this.

[@raidang]

But the mass scale they did was something

[@assyriancomedycentral1753]

It wasnt just the Assyrians that did this. Did you know that in Sparta they would throw the disables/mentally ill kids off mountains because they had no use for them.

[@Kaiserboo1871]

@@raidang I’ve always said this. The deeds of the Assyrians weren’t uniquely brutal, pretty much every ancient civilization did what they did. What made the Assyrians stand out was the sheer scale of their brutality. Thanks to their newly invented iron weapons, they were able to slaughter and conquer their way into becoming the largest empire ever formed up to that point in history.

[@raidang]

@@Kaiserboo1871 even the crucifixion in the Roman world was rare within the Roman Empire

[@aram226]

Thanks for the medens❤

[@matthewdewey7312]

Ash-er-nas-SIR-pal. Otherwise, brilliant.

[@toufiq-ul-alam6475]

I pray no empire like this ever rise again.

[@davidd2053]

Have you been living under a rock? There has been others who have been way worse. Assyrians were not crueler than any other nation. Unlike others, they didn't slaughter the whole population. They did make an example of a few for others to follow.

[@g-1393]

Ever heard of Timur and Mongols!?

[@user-mi7xo3ip8p]

Ever heard of the SYRIAN Bashar Al Assad?

[@LDN76]

Nice to see we are still human😊

[@CSGATI]

So that is where Vlad the Impaler got the idea. So less crime than Portland?

[@MyChannel-ol1zz]

Or Texas

[@majorphenom1]

Thanks for sharing 🙏🏾

[@user-po6nf2ne1u]

Very interesting and educational!

[@Silent_Shadow]

The worst part about History is that it repeats itself. When will we learn?

[@gaoth88]

Those who study history are doomed to see others repeat it

[@JSkyGemini]

As long as the cult known as religion, and the handful of greedy rich are allowed to continue.

[@johnking6252]

And it was true for All society's in this era . It's a brutal world we live in regardless of the era. ✌️🙏

[@saptorshimukherjee8532]

So that's where the word Asur comes from

[@Thelordismhstrength]

I can't imagine how painful these methods are

[@billybob-jp7eh]

I was born in Nottingham england, when I had my gene map done at Bristol uni I had marks in western Europe (Russia ,Norway ,France,Ireland and Scotland) and a concentration in Syria, iraq and turkey.small world.

[@donald8066]

This solved the problem of crime, with penaltys like this, there is no need for jails, we would save billions.

[@simondancaster8334]

You forgot to mention Assyrian use of crucifixion, which, I’ve read, they invented.

[@pyeitme508]

Woah 😮

[@oldmate86]

If you wanna make an omelette you have to break a few eggs

[@haroldbell213]

They would skin a kid alive in front of his mother. They were brutal people.

[@FelixstoweFoamForge]

I've always had a soft spot of Tiglath=Pilleser III/ Not for any real reason, just because it's such a cool-sounding name.

[@diegoaespitia]

humans are fucking metal, man

[@anytajp7419]

As a modern Assyrian, I now know where our moms get their tactics from. 🤣

[@user-cg2tw8pw7j]

No, you are Nestorian, you speak Aramaic

[@anytajp7419]

@@user-cg2tw8pw7j No, I am Assyrian. I speak Assyrian, a modern version of Aramaic. The Assyrian community is finally thriving in diaspora and we will NOT stand for you or anyone else trying to deny our history or ancestry. You don't get to tell me what I am. Educate yourself, Google modern Assyrians.

[@user-cg2tw8pw7j]

@@anytajp7419 You are not Assyrians, you are Nestorian Christians. Britain named your church the Assyrians

[@marknikovvelesky2960]

​@@user-cg2tw8pw7jNo we are martians 😂😂

[@TheBaBaTV]

⁠@@user-cg2tw8pw7jfalse, google read history. Native Assyrians are from Nineveh plains, assyrian is an ethnicity…. You uneducated ! Nestorian is religious name lol !

[@FearlessP4P1]

It’s kind of sad how the Assyrian’s once had an empire and now they’re close to non-impactful on the world stage. Last time I heard of them they were being victimized by ISIS.

[@Ayushgraphy]

They are getting their own karma of their ancestors 😂

[@grandcanyon-pg2px]

​@@Ayushgraphy like France now

[@gamerk1625]

They only exist in Armenia.. and armenia was once a massive kingdom which is slowly disappearing by Turkish oppression

[@beatrizgalvani]

@@AyushgraphyYou can't judge the ancient world, that despite being extremely beautiful had many civilisations who committed invasions, empires, slavery, sacked or destroyed cities, by today standards. From which country are you from? Even your ancestors must have for sure commited acts that would be considered immoral or human crimes by today standards.

[@beatrizgalvani]

@@gamerk1625 The large majority of Assyrians live in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Iran, USA, Sweden, Germany, Jordan Australia, Lebanon, Netherlands, Canada, France and Russia. Assyrians in Armenia are just 2.769-6.000.

[@SebHaarfagre]

_"Angel descended and killed 185 000 of them"_ Wow, the Assyrians weren't only masters of misery, they were also masters of logistics, even surpassing any logistics in modern times Even 18 500 soldiers around one city, in that area, at that time, would had been a masterstroke genius/effort of sorts 🤦‍♂

[@raidang]

Not 18 500... 185 500... While other kingdoms at that time were relying on conscript.. The Assyrian Empire had professional standing army trained to kill

[@letsgettit3338]

Yeah is schools they teach his-story (lucifer's-story) but actual history tells us ancient civilizations were alot more advanced than atheists tell us trust the Word of God olny

[@MR-backup]

Really? That number waows you that much? That number would fill 2 Los Angeles Convention Center Stadium full. And as another comment here pointed out, wouldn't be that much for an EMPIRE'S standing army. Also considering that near that time the Greeks had already had a epic tale with numbers equal to those in a well known War involving a wooden horse.

[@thesanfranciscoseahorse473]

Modern armies are significantly smaller than the ancient world used. Back then it was about wages of troops and bodies. Now it's about technology and tactics more-so than brute force of man power and numbers. 200 well armed and equipped U.S. Marines could easily take out 20,000 ancient soldiers on a flat battlefield given a few vehicles, heavy machine guns, and and explosives. 185,000 troops wouldn't be the largest army ever seen on a battlefield in the ancient world.

[@adamfox1669]

Modern society needs Assyria back

[@angialexy]

Modern society are worst than Assyria 😂

[@jmanjman2685]

There is a reason why the bible mentions the assyrian empire in this way: Isaiah 33:1-9 Isaiah 33:1-9 NLT What sorrow awaits you Assyrians, who have destroyed others but have never been destroyed yourselves. You betray others, but you have never been betrayed. When you are done destroying, you will be destroyed. When you are done betraying, you will be betrayed. But LORD, be merciful to us, for we have waited for you. Be our strong arm each day and our salvation in times of trouble. The enemy runs at the sound of your voice. When you stand up, the nations flee! Just as caterpillars and locusts strip the fields and vines, so the fallen army of Assyria will be stripped! Though the LORD is very great and lives in heaven, he will make Jerusalem his home of justice and righteousness. In that day he will be your sure foundation, providing a rich store of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of the LORD will be your treasure. But now your brave warriors weep in public. Your ambassadors of peace cry in bitter disappointment. Your roads are deserted; no one travels them anymore. The Assyrians have broken their peace treaty and care nothing for the promises they made before witnesses. They have no respect for anyone. The land of Israel wilts in mourning. Lebanon withers with shame. The plain of Sharon is now a wilderness. Bashan and Carmel have been plundered.

[@HusseinAliAl-Shami]

Well the Bible mentions the Assyrians as the MIGHTY HAND OF GOD, Then read Isaiah 19:21-25. By the way, the re-existence of the Assyrian independence IS THE ONLY road to PEACE in the Middle East. Got it, smart!

[@DigitalNomadOnFIRE]

It was a cute little empire, a starter empire if you will...

[@user-kx5ob2xx8f]

The church brutality is really not the far from the assiryan empire.

[@maple2361]

the wipeout of 185k soldiers is written in tablet of king assyrian. but he did not tell the reason

[@Aubrey374]

The reason was the angel of the LORD

[@TheObserversTV]

No it wasn't written on the Assyrian tablet.

[@monicadiazrivera3907]

Yup, tablet in a London museum.

[@TheObserversTV]

@@monicadiazrivera3907 Source?

[@marianodiazrivera2896]

@@TheObserversTV went to the museum myself. The stone did just said he stopped the seige. I believe the account in the Bible after that. 185,000 killed without the Jews lifting a sword, and no back story on the stone.

[@Babil00786]

No Wonder it Took 3 Nations To Take Down Assyrian Empire

[@JSkyGemini]

How many to take out the nazis?

[@alkiskosh6536]

2 nations

[@johnxina5126]

@@alkiskosh6536 Babylonians,Medians and Cimmerians?

[@alkiskosh6536]

@@johnxina5126 Cimmerians didn’t have nation, probably they were mercenaries for Medes

[@lfreddub2763]

So a king of such a powerful kingdom just “gave up and left” Jerusalem? A city that famous? No way. The biblical account has to be true. I mean you even said scholars can corroborate biblical Assyrian accounts to secular ones. But THIS one instance is not? Cmon man.

[@twhsaw6682]

Just want to point out that the image at 3:46 doesnt look like impalement. More like the chinese inflicting "Death by a thousand cuts", specifically thats a french person being executed by the chinese. Please. This guy was not a king. He was not impaled. His executioner was not even close to Assyrian

[@eagleeye182]

The most brutal punishment was employed by Shah Abbas I, the Iranian (Safavid) shah who ruled Iran from 1589 t0 1629. He had 40 men-eaters who would literary devour convicts alive upon his order.

[@TheProphetMonk]

I read that the Assyrians would boil their enemies before flaying them alive.

[@madwellmusic8995]

Softened up before the deal of death. Imagine the other way around too. I'm sure someone got that treatment. Persians were exceptionally cruel as well. Tied up to a log covered in honey and milk and left to rot in a swamp. The isolation, hopelessness, and slow grueling pain of cramping, no sleep, and agitation of insects and critters you can't swat away....extreme uncomfortable slow death.

[@fuzzley911]

@@madwellmusic8995 Persians almost never did that, the only times they did it was with bad prisoners

[@ThroneMattAEr]

It was the largest ancient empire before the Achaemenid

[@triligyblood]

I would love to see you guys do a deep dive on chattel slavery in the US in a similar way.

[@pilomalik9696]

Our empires slaves were captured enemies. It was not based on race. Same with the Greeks.

[@EstbXCIII]

@@pilomalik9696 not true...millions of white people were captured from Mediterranean coastal cities by north African powers.. pale white women with blonde and Red hair were particularly treasured in the slave trade

[@jonathandrummond4200]

@@pilomalik9696 Slaves in most cases were poor people. All the rich people from every region would sell the poor as slaves. All races were doing it and there were white slaves traded for black slaves quite regularly. We can all agree life back then was terrible and hopefully going forward we can keep it to a minimum.

[@josmotherman591]

I would like to see you do a deep dive into the African, Arab, and Mediterranean slavery.

[@triligyblood]

@@josmotherman591 cool

[@billyhomeyer7414]

Where’d these Assyrians grow up? Must be the south side of Chicago. Shoplifting is free yay.

[@DOCTORJAN714]

Humans...

[@hauser6344]

Lovely people.

[@emonsalt]

It's like being tricked by a user agreement

[@fmikael1]

Look we all have blemishes

[@davidgreen7392]

Have to wonder whom really wrote, or exaggerated these stories. I'm not saying they were, but that IS what ALL future and historical winners do. Who's ruling now?

[@user-cg2tw8pw7j]

Are you saying that all the peoples of the ancient Middle East, the Greeks, the Median immigrants, the Persians, and the inhabitants of Iran (the people of Elam)? Are you saying that they are all lying?

[@LuisRuiz-sv2mz]

The old gods are returning. So get ready

[@kcvriess]

And yet people are having a hard time in understanding why God would order the Hebrews to erradicate all Cannianites from current day Israël. The Assyrians were an utterly wicked people whom the God of the Bible had given them 400 years to repent from their sins and change their evil ways. But they didn't. They suffered God's wrath through the ethnic cleansing by the Hebrews of the Cananites. Men, women and children. Just like the Assyrians did themselves to other people themselves.

[@jackhaypenny5830]

How barbaric.... pinching her ear while waving a knife in her face..... the bastards......

[@user-up8jx3mt6j]

Maybe this is what 'civilization' does. 😐

[@user-sj8ki6ep5i]

SIns of their ancestors surely, not their decendants !

[@Infinity_Jake1]

They had so much testosterone. They're the envy of modern day serial killers...

[@Auloss]

swarthies are capable of thing that only them can imagine

[@onemore5952]

Same old, same old…

[@user-qd3eo3fl5e]

IRAQ MESOPOTAMIA ❤🇮🇶 FROM IRAQ 😍❤ASSYRIAN EMPIRE 🏳😎✌

[@user-qd3eo3fl5e]

​@@rdred8693🇮🇷👞👞👞👞👞👞👞👞

[@johnxina5126]

@@rdred8693 Mesopotamia,Egypt,China and India are a bit older then Iran

[@user-qd3eo3fl5e]

​@@johnxina5126YES IRAQ MESOPOTAMIA 1 EGYPT 2🦅🇮🇶🇪🇬

[@catherinemerrill5511]

I can't stand most of our human history. How could we possibly have lived so long? Even so, COME, Lord Jesus.

[@user-cg2tw8pw7j]

Jesus, who speaks Aramaic, loves Egypt, the Canaanites, and the city of Damascus, and loves the Arabs and Romans, and they say that they are the descendants of Abraham, God’s chosen people. Sorry, this is not God’s prophet, a male, and the prophet salutes those who raised Jesus. They said, “This is a prophet.”

[@KingNoTail]

​@@user-cg2tw8pw7j😂Yeah, sure.

[@loneranger7271]

Human history is filled with endless brutalities everywhere

[@user-vm6mv8il6s]

creating terror = instinct of domestication

[@morganclare4704]

The JEWS were NEVER lost. cheers

[@weerobot]

The censor rectangles Seem Pointless...

[@PrincipledUncertainty]

2023: Someone was a meanie begeanie online. I need councelling. Oh, please

[@stretchpoops]

do one on the opium wars and the perpetrators

[@puroosingla7237]

make a video on what terrorist did to indians in kashmir in 1990

[@stephenbranley91]

3:46 Fairly sure that's actually an image of Chinese slow-slicing (ling chi).

[@manawa3832]

they seem nice

[@DrKnish1]

I was taught that slavery started in 1619 in America

[@SanitysVoid]

Why did defeated Soldiers surrender? Why?

[@ashurmalka5232]

Syrian is Assyrian. The a was taking out in the 1500s by Rome

[@gutsandcasc]

Now I know where the cartels have gotten their inspiration from, unfortunately

[@N-xi2zh]

lots of sickos did this and worse. ppl are disgusting hogs. many of them. different species. humans not all same species in reality. some are below some are above humanity.

[@HusseinAliAl-Shami]

All civilizations act the same. Look what we Americans did in Japan, Vietnam, and Iraq. and it is in the 21st century. Right. So let us not marginalize crimes of one nation and deny what is going on during our present time.

[@Joy-TheLazyCatLady]

Evil has always existed but it has evolved a bit. I don't think there is one empire that's the worst. They just might have a few new methods and maybe some are more prolific after a period of less brutality. Memories fade over time. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I'm really tired of how women are treated. 🤬

[@thecanadakid7622]

tired of how women are treated because you do not care about men, got it.

[@Joy-TheLazyCatLady]

@@thecanadakid7622 when did I say that? I didn't. I care about all people, if you must know but it gets old hearing about women being treated as less than all throughout history and, in a lot of ways, even today.

[@thecanadakid7622]

@@Joy-TheLazyCatLady well you are singleing them out as victims with statements like that and it reads that way between the lines. Men have suffered more through out history FYI. Women have never suffered anything close to the pain of war or being drafted. They have for the most part been a protected class, with less rights but protected and lived easier lives. It is in mens internal instinct to protect and provide for women, don't forget that. They have childlike features though evolution for that exact reason.

[@808bigisland]

⁠@@Joy-TheLazyCatLadyIt’s because they are less. There is no her-story. A fit, healthy and intelligent breeder has an evolutionary lifespan of 22 years, 2.1+ successful pregnancies. After that it’s simply estrogenated misery.

[@hexerei02021]

@@808bigisland Did you just call women breeders? 💀

[@turdferguson9356]

all this colonialism, empire and slavery and not one European white boy in sight... so much for my university education on history

[@masonpyle5929]

Every civilization committed these acts. It’s not just Europeans.

[@northernkingdomprincess7384]

They are white 🤦🏽

[@jr2904]

​@@northernkingdomprincess7384 nope, try again princess

[@jr2904]

​@Florentino Perez so what? Past is past and white people are being called literal evil for doing the same things every civilization has done before it. At least we've improved things and ended slavery in the western world.

[@infectedinfantry1887]

​@@northernkingdomprincess7384 We Middle Easterners Are Not White Or European

[@jackhaypenny5830]

Pinching their ear.. while waving a knife in front of them.... what could be more evil??......

[@samc3769]

Too much text all over the video.

[@Indian2.5]

2:22 Assur in Hinduism is translation for Devil...

[@AverageHandEnjoyer-jp3xu]

🤓. This has nothing to do it " Peedrinkingism "

[@angialexy]

Those are your gods has nothing to do with Assyrian Ashur ! ( ashur was grand son of Noah) which Assyrian are continuing of that blood line !

[@AverageHandEnjoyer-jp3xu]

@@angialexy Yeah bro. Those indians trying to bring everything out of thin air 😂 🤷🏻‍♂️