Yauṯaʿ was a vassal king of

Qedar The Qedarites () were an ancient Arab tribal confederation centred in their capital Dumat al-Jandal in the present-day Saudi Arabian province of Al-Jawf. Attested from the 9th century BC, the Qedarites formed a powerful polity which expande ...

under the

Neo-Assyrian Empire The Neo-Assyrian Empire was the fourth and penultimate stage of ancient Assyrian history. Beginning with the accession of Adad-nirari II in 911 BC, the Neo-Assyrian Empire grew to dominate the ancient Near East and parts of South Caucasus, Nort ...

who reigned in the 7th century BCE. He was the son of his predecessor, King

Ḫazaʾil Ḫazaʾil () was a Qedarite king regnant who ruled in the 7th century BCE. He was a contemporary of the Neo-Assyrian kings Sennacherib and Esarhaddon. Life Hazael was a Qedarite king regnant and an associate of the queen of Qedar, Teʾelḫunu ...

, assuming power after his father had died. His reign ended around 652 BCE after the Neo-Assyrian ruler

Ashurbanipal Ashurbanipal (, meaning " Ashur is the creator of the heir")—or Osnappar ()—was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 669 BC to his death in 631. He is generally remembered as the last great king of Assyria. Ashurbanipal inherited the th ...

had him dethroned and publicly humiliated for not paying the annual tribute.

Reign

Yauṯaʿ took power after his predecessor and father had died. Between 676 and 673 BCE, a man named 'Wahb staged a powerful rebellion against Yauṯaʿ that completely dethroned him; as a result of this he requested help from the Neo-Assyrian Empire to reinstate him as king of the Qedarites. A few years after he had been reinstated as king, Yauṯaʿ tried to exercise full independence of his kingdom, and stopped paying the annual tribute to the Neo-Assyrian Empire which prompted a campaign against him by the Neo-Assyrian ruler

Esarhaddon Esarhaddon, also spelled Essarhaddon, Assarhaddon and Ashurhaddon (, also , meaning " Ashur has given me a brother"; Biblical Hebrew: ''ʾĒsar-Ḥaddōn'') was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 681 to 669 BC. The third king of the S ...

. Yauṯaʿ fled from his throne, but during the reign of

he came back to power after being forgiven by the latter. Despite this, Yauṯaʿ eventually tried to ditch his connections with the Neo-Assyrian Empire again, which prompted Ashurbanipal to invade his territory, capture him and take him to

Nineveh Nineveh ( ; , ''URUNI.NU.A, Ninua''; , ''Nīnəwē''; , ''Nīnawā''; , ''Nīnwē''), was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located in the modern-day city of Mosul (itself built out of the Assyrian town of Mepsila) in northern ...

where he was publicly shamed. Even after his rule and public humiliation, there is an inscription which does state that he assisted the king Abyaṯiʿ ben Teʾri in a revolt against Ashurbanipal.

References

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