880s BC deaths

Fourth King of Israel (1 Kings 16)

king of Israel, with a reign of seven days; chariot commander who murdered king Elah, and succeeded him, but was overthrown by the army

Assyrian king

Egyptian pharaoh (c. 925 BC – c. 890 BC)

Egyptian pharaoh

king of the Agiad line at Sparta

King of Zhou Dynasty China

Deleastartus (Dalay-‘Ashtart) was a king of Tyre and the second of four brothers who held the kingship. The information about him has been inferred from Frank M. Cross’s reconstruction of Josephus’s citation of the Phoenician author Menander of Ephesus, in Against Apion i.18. In the text as it now stands for the passage in Josephus/Menander, Astartus is the name and Deleastartus the patronymic of the second of the four brothers to receive the kingship, while the first brother, the one who killed Abdastartus to start the dynasty, is unnamed. Cross restores Astartus as the name of the first brot