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 17:6-23

The Fall of Israel

6In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria ^gcaptured Samaria, ^hand he carried the Israelites away to Assyria ⁱand placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of ^jGozan, and in the cities of ^kthe Medes.

Exile Because of Idolatry

7And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, ^lwho had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods 8 ^mand walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel, ⁿand in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced. 9And the people of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, ^ofrom watchtower to fortified city. 10They set up for themselves ^ppillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, 11and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger, 12and they served idols, ^qof which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.” 13Yet the Lord ^rwarned Israel and Judah ^sby every prophet ^tand every seer, saying, ^u“Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”

14But they would not listen, ^vbut were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God. 15They despised his statutes ^wand his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after ^xfalse idols ^yand became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the ^zLord had commanded them that they should not do like them. 16And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of ^aatwo calves; and they ^abmade an Asherah and ^acworshiped all the host of heaven and served ^adBaal. 17 ^aeAnd they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings ▼

▼Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire

and used ^agdivination and ^ahomens and ^aisold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. 18Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but ^ajthe tribe of Judah only.

19 ^akJudah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced. 20And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them ^aland gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

21 ^amWhen he had torn Israel from the house of David, ^anthey made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. And Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord ^aoand made them commit great sin. 22The people of Israel walked in all the sins that Jeroboam did. They did not depart from them, 23until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, ^apas he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. ^aqSo Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.

2 Kings 18:9-13

9In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, ^arShalmaneser 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 ^asHalah, and on the ^atHabor, ^authe 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 ^avIn the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.

2 Chronicles 28:20

20So ^awTiglath-pileser ▼

▼Hebrew Tilgath-pilneser

king of Assyria came against him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him.

2 Chronicles 32:1-23

Sennacherib Invades Judah

1 ^ayAfter these things and these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah and encamped against the fortified cities, thinking to win them for himself. 2And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come and intended to fight against Jerusalem, 3he planned with his officers and his mighty men to stop the water of the springs that were outside the city; and they helped him. 4A great many people were gathered, and they stopped all the springs and ^azthe brook that flowed through the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?” 5He set to work resolutely and built up ^baall the wall that was broken down and raised towers upon it, ▼

▼Vulgate; Hebrew  and raised upon the towers

and outside it he built another wall, and he strengthened the ^bcMillo in the city of David. He also made weapons and shields in abundance. 6And he set combat commanders over the people and gathered them together to him in the square at the gate of the city and spoke ^bdencouragingly to them, saying, 7 ^be“Be strong and courageous. ^bfDo not be afraid or dismayed before the king of Assyria and all the horde that is with him, ^bgfor there are more with us than with him. 8With him is ^bhan arm of flesh, ^bibut with us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles.” And the people took confidence from the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

Sennacherib Blasphemes

9After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria, who was besieging Lachish with all his forces, sent his servants to Jerusalem to Hezekiah king of Judah and to all the people of Judah who were in Jerusalem, saying, 10“Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, ‘On what are you trusting, that you endure the siege in Jerusalem? 11Is not Hezekiah misleading you, that he may give you over to die by famine and by thirst, when he tells you, “The Lord our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria”? 12 ^bjHas not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, “Before one altar you shall worship, and on it you shall burn your sacrifices”? 13Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands at all able to deliver their lands out of my hand? 14Who among all the gods of those nations that my fathers devoted to destruction was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand? 15Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand!’”

16And his servants said still more against the Lord God and against his servant Hezekiah. 17And he wrote letters to cast contempt on the Lord, the God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, “Like the gods of the nations of the lands who have not delivered their people from my hands, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver his people from my hand.” 18And they shouted it with a loud voice in the language of Judah to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten and terrify them, in order that they might take the city. 19And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem as they spoke of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands.

The Lord Delivers Jerusalem

20Then Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, prayed because of this and cried to heaven. 21And the Lord sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty warriors and commanders and officers in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with ^bkshame of face to his own land. And when he came into the house of his god, some of his own sons struck him down there with the sword. 22So the Lord saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib king of Assyria and from the hand of all his enemies, and he provided for them on every side. 23And many ^blbrought gifts to the Lord to Jerusalem and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from that time onward.

2 Chronicles 33:11

11 ^bmTherefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and ^bnbound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon.

Isaiah 7:17-20

17 ^boThe 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 ^bpEphraim departed from Judah—the king of Assyria!”

18In that day the Lord will ^bqwhistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines, and ^brin the clefts of the rocks, and on all the thornbushes, and on all the pastures. ▼

▼Or watering holes, or brambles

20In that day ^btthe Lord will ^bushave with a razor that is ^bvhired beyond ^bwthe River—with the king of Assyria—the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.