2Ki 15:19, Isa 7:8, 17-18, Hos 8:9-10 | 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.

Isaiah 7:8

8 For the head of Syria is ^fDamascus,
and the head of Damascus is Rezin.
And within sixty-five years
Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.

Isaiah 7:17-18

17 ^gThe 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 ^hEphraim departed from Judah—the king of Assyria!”

18 In that day the Lord will ⁱwhistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

Hosea 8:9-10

9 For ^jthey have gone up to Assyria,
^ka wild donkey wandering alone;
Ephraim has hired lovers.
10 Though they hire allies among the nations,
I will soon gather them up.
And ^lthe king and princes ^mshall soon writhe
because of the tribute.