Telassar

Telassar was a territory inhabited by "the children of Eden" (2 Kgs. 19:12; Isa. 37:12), cited by Sennacherib's emissary Rabshakeh as an example of regions whose gods could not deliver them from Assyrian conquest: "Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?" The "children of Eden" in Telassar are likely identified with the Aramaic state Bit-Adini on the middle Euphrates, known from Assyrian texts as a kingdom subdued by Shalmaneser III. The reference underscores the Assyrian claim that no god had successfully protected its territory — a claim rebutted by the deliverance of Jerusalem (2 Kgs. 19:35).