2Ki 15:19, 29, 16:7, 18:13, 19:36-37, Isa 7:7-8, 10:5-6, 11-12 | ESV | STEP | Pul the king of Assyria came against the land , and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver , that he might help him to confirm his hold on the royal power .

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 15:29

29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel, ^fTiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured ^gIjon, ^hAbel-beth-maacah, Janoah, ⁱKedesh, ^jHazor, Gilead, and ^kGalilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.

2 Kings 16:7

7 ^lSo Ahaz sent messengers to ^mTiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and rescue me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel, who are attacking me.”

2 Kings 18:13

Sennacherib Attacks Judah

13 ⁿIn the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.

2 Kings 19:36-37

36 Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went home and lived at ^oNineveh. 37 And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, ^pAdrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword and escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.

Isaiah 7:7-8

7 thus says the Lord God:

^q“‘It shall not stand,
and it shall not come to pass.
8 For the head of Syria is ^rDamascus,
and the head of Damascus is Rezin.
And within sixty-five years
Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.

Isaiah 10:5-6

Judgment on Arrogant Assyria

5 Woe to Assyria, ^sthe rod of my anger;
the staff in their hands is my fury!
6 Against a ^tgodless nation I send him,
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take ^uspoil and seize plunder,
and to ^vtread them down like the mire of the streets.

Isaiah 10:11-12

11 shall I not do to Jerusalem and ^wher idols
^xas I have done to Samaria and her images?”
12 ^yWhen the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, ^zhe ^{▼▼Hebrew I} will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.