Asshur-izir-pal, who seems to have regarded their conduct on this occasion as an insult to himself, and was resolved to punish their presumption, made his eighth expedition solely against this bold but weak people.

Unable to meet his forces in the field, they shut themselves up in their chief city, Kabrabi ( ?), which was immediately besieged, and soon taken and burnt by the Assyrians.

The country of Beth-Adina, which lay on the left or east bank of the Euphrates, in the vicinity of the modern Balis, was overrun and added to the empire.

Two thousand five hundred prisoners were carried off and settled at Calah.
The most interesting of Asshur-izir-pal's campaigns is the ninth, which was against Syria.

Marching across Upper-Mesopotamia, and receiving various tributes upon his way, the Assyrian monarch passed the Euphrates on rafts, and, entering the city of Carchemish, received the submission of Sangara, the Hittite prince, who ruled in that town, and of various other chiefs, "who came reverently and kissed his sceptre." He then "gave command" to advance towards Lebanon.