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There are the Colonies which Asnapper is said to have brought into Samaria, Ezr. IV. 10. as well as those by Esar-haddon, v. 2.
The Jews do judg this Asnapper to be the same with Sennacherib, and that he had eight* 1.1 names, the first-syllables of the names indeed agree pretty well, Sena and Asna; but whe∣ther they denote the same persons I leave undetermin'd.
However, whether this Asnapper was the same with Sennacherib or Salmanasser, or some great Minister of the Kings Commander in chief in the transplanting of a Colony; it seems evident that Samaria was planted with Colonies two several times. The first imme∣diately after the taking of the City, being then furnisht with Cuthites, Avites, Sepharvaites, &c. under Asnapper, be he King, or only chief Commander in the action. And when mul∣titudes of them had been devoured by Lions, then was it afresh Planted by the Shushan∣chites, Tarpelites, &c. in the days of Esarhaddon, with whom a Priest went up to instruct them in the worship of the true God. How greatly Epiphanius confounds these things may be seen in his Heres. VIII. Cap. 9.
In Sanhedr. fol. 94. 1.