zSee 2 Kgs. 18:14-16
2 Kings 15:29
29In the days of Pekah king of Israel, aTiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured bIjon, cAbel-beth-maacah, Janoah, dKedesh, eHazor, Gilead, and fGalilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.2 Kings 17:3-5
3 gAgainst him came up hShalmaneser 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.2 Kings 18:9-15
9In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, iShalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it, 10and at the end of three years he took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. 11The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria and put them in jHalah, and on the kHabor, lthe river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, 12because they did not obey the voice of the Lord their God but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded. They neither listened nor obeyed.Sennacherib Attacks Judah
13 mIn the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. 14And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you impose on me I will bear.” nAnd the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents ▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
of silver and thirty talents of gold. 15And Hezekiah pgave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king’s house. 2 Kings 19:32-35
32“Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield or qcast up a siege mound against it. 33 rBy the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the Lord. 34 sFor I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake tand for the sake of my servant David.”35And that night uthe angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
2 Chronicles 33:11
11 vTherefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and wbound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon.Isaiah 10:5-12
Judgment on Arrogant Assyria
5 Woe to Assyria, xthe rod of my anger;the staff in their hands is my fury!
6Against a ygodless nation I send him,
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take zspoil and seize plunder,
and to aatread them down like the mire of the streets.
7But he abdoes not so intend,
and his heart does not so think;
but it is in his heart to destroy,
and to cut off nations not a few;
8for he says:
ac“Are not my commanders all kings?
9 adIs not aeCalno like afCarchemish?
Is not agHamath like ahArpad?
aiIs not ajSamaria like Damascus?
10As my hand has reached to akthe kingdoms of the idols,
whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
11shall I not do to Jerusalem and alher idols
amas I have done to Samaria and her images?”
12 anWhen the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, aohe ▼
▼Hebrew I
will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.
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