Sargon

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Sargon
     (In the inscriptions, "Sarra-yukin" [the god] has appointed the
     king; also "Sarru-kinu," the legitimate king.) On the death of
     Shalmaneser (B.C. 723), one of the Assyrian generals established
     himself on the vacant throne, taking the name of "Sargon," after
     that of the famous monarch, the Sargon of Accad, founder of the


     first Semitic empire, as well as of one of the most famous
     libraries of Chaldea. He forthwith began a conquering career,
     and became one of the most powerful of the Assyrian monarchs. He
     is mentioned by name in the Bible only in connection with the
     siege of Ashdod (Isa. 20:1).
     
       At the very beginning of his reign he besieged and took the
     city of Samaria (2 Kings 17:6; 18:9-12). On an inscription found
     in the palace he built at Khorsabad, near Nieveh, he says, "The
     city of Samaria I besieged, I took; 27,280 of its inhabitants I
     carried away; fifty chariots that were among them I collected,"
     etc. The northern kingdom he changed into an Assyrian satrapy.
     He afterwards drove Merodach-baladan (q.v.), who kept him at bay
     for twelve years, out of Babylon, which he entered in triumph.
     By a succession of victories he gradually enlarged and
     consolidated the empire, which now extended from the frontiers
     of Egypt in the west to the mountains of Elam in the east, and
     thus carried almost to completion the ambitious designs of
     Tiglath-pileser (q.v.). He was murdered by one of his own
     soldiers (B.C. 705) in his palace at Khorsabad, after a reign of
     sixteen years, and was succeeded by his son Sennacherib.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Sargon, who takes away protection