2 Kings 15:19
19 aPul ▼▼Another name for Tiglath-pileser III (compare verse 29)
the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave cPul a thousand talents ▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
of silver, that he might help him eto confirm his hold on the royal power. 2 Kings 17:6
The Fall of Israel
6In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria fcaptured Samaria, gand he carried the Israelites away to Assyria hand placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of iGozan, and in the cities of jthe Medes.2 Kings 18:11
11The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria and put them in kHalah, and on the lHabor, mthe river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,2 Kings 18:19-20
19And the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours? 20Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me?Isaiah 7:17-18
17 nThe Lord will bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father’s house such days as have not come since the day that oEphraim departed from Judah—the king of Assyria!”18In that day the Lord will pwhistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
Isaiah 8:6-8
6“Because this people has refused the waters of qShiloah that flow gently, and rejoice over rRezin and the son of Remaliah, 7therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them sthe waters of tthe River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it uwill rise over all its channels and go over all its banks, 8and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, vreaching even to the neck, and its woutspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, xO Immanuel.”Isaiah 10:5-6
Judgment on Arrogant Assyria
5 Woe to Assyria, ythe rod of my anger;the staff in their hands is my fury!
6Against a zgodless nation I send him,
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take aaspoil and seize plunder,
and to abtread them down like the mire of the streets.
Hosea 11:5
5 acThey shall not ▼▼Or surely
return to the land of Egypt,but aeAssyria shall be their king,
afbecause agthey have refused to return to me.
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