Nineveh was taken, and its defenders slain.

Henceforth Samas-Rimmon reigned with an undisputed title.
But Assyria was long in recovering from the effects of the revolt, which had shaken her to the foundations.

The dynasty itself never recovered.
Samas-Rimmon, indeed, at the head of the army which had overcome his brother, continued the military policy of his predecessors; the tribes of Media and southern Armenia were defeated, and campaigns were carried on against Babylonia, the strength of which was now completely broken.
In B.C.812 Babylon was taken, but two years later Samas-Rimmon himself died, and was succeeded by his son Rimmon-nirari III.

His reign was passed in constant warfare on the frontiers of the empire, and in B.C.
804 Damascus was surrendered to him by its king Mariha, who became an Assyrian tributary.

In the following year a pestilence broke out, and when his successor, Shalmaneser III., mounted the throne in B.C.781, he found himself confronted by a new and formidable power, that of Ararat or Van.