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What happened to Damascus after Tiglath-pileser III conquered it?
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Miniature of Isaiah, manuscript illumination from The Siegburg Lectionary, 12th century.
After the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III systematically broke the power of Damascus over a two-year period, he captured the city in 732 BCE. Following this conquest, the state of Aram ceased to exist. The fall of Damascus was an event anticipated by the prophet Isaiah.123