Easton's Bible Dictionary: M. G. Easton, M.A., D.D.
(Nubian, Sabako), an Ethiopian king who brought Egypt under his sway. He was bribed by Hoshea to help him against the Assyrian monarch Shalmaneser (
2 Ki. 17:4). This was a return to the policy that had been successful in the reign of Jeroboam I.