2Ki 15:19, 29, 17:3, 6, 24, Ezr 4:2, 10 | 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 17:3

3 ^lAgainst him came up ^mShalmaneser king of Assyria. And Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.

2 Kings 17:6

The Fall of Israel

6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria ⁿcaptured Samaria, ^oand he carried the Israelites away to Assyria ^pand placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of ^qGozan, and in the cities of ^rthe Medes.

2 Kings 17:24

Assyria Resettles Samaria

24 ^sAnd the king of Assyria brought people from ^tBabylon, Cuthah, ^uAvva, ^vHamath, and ^wSepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the people of Israel. And they took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.

Ezra 4:2

2 they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers’ houses and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we worship your God as you do, and we have been sacrificing to him ever ^xsince the days of ^yEsarhaddon king of Assyria ^zwho brought us here.”

Ezra 4:10

10 and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble ^aaOsnappar deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River.