2 Kings 13:7
7For there was not left to Jehoahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust aat threshing.2 Kings 15:19-20
19 bPul ▼▼Another name for Tiglath-pileser III (compare verse 29)
the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave dPul a thousand talents ▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
of silver, that he might help him fto confirm his hold on the royal power. 20Menahem exacted the money from Israel, that is, from all the wealthy men, fifty shekels ▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
of silver from every man, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back and did not stay there in the land. 2 Kings 17:3-6
3 hAgainst him came up iShalmaneser king of Assyria. And Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute. 4But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison. 5Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria, and for three years he besieged it.The Fall of Israel
6In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria jcaptured Samaria, kand he carried the Israelites away to Assyria land placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of mGozan, and in the cities of nthe Medes.
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