2Ki 17:6, Isa 10:22, 28:17, 34:11, Lam 2:8, Eze 23:31-34, Amo 7:7-8 | ESV | STEP | In the ninth year of Hoshea , the king of Assyria captured Samaria , and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah , and on the Habor , the river of Gozan , and in the cities of the Medes .

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ad[See ver. 7 above]

2 Kings 17:6

The Fall of Israel

6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria ^acaptured Samaria, ^band he carried the Israelites away to Assyria ^cand placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of ^dGozan, and in the cities of ^ethe Medes.

Isaiah 10:22

22 ^fFor though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, ^gonly a remnant of them will return. ^hDestruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

Isaiah 28:17

17 And I will make justice ⁱthe line,
and righteousness ^jthe plumb line;
and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies,
and waters will overwhelm the shelter.”

Isaiah 34:11

11 ^kBut the hawk and the porcupine ^{▼▼The identity of the animals rendered hawk and porcupine is uncertain} shall possess it,
the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
^mHe shall stretch the line of ⁿconfusion ^{▼▼Hebrew formlessness} over it,
and the plumb line of emptiness.

Lamentations 2:8

8 ^pThe Lord determined to lay in ruins
^qthe wall of the daughter of Zion;
^rhe stretched out the measuring line;
he did not restrain his hand from destroying;
^she caused rampart and wall to lament;
^tthey languished together.

Ezekiel 23:31-34

31 You have gone the way of your sister; ^utherefore I will give ^vher cup into your hand. 32 Thus says the Lord God:

“You shall drink your sister’s cup
that is deep and large;
you shall be laughed at and held in derision,
for it contains much;
33 you will be filled with ^wdrunkenness and sorrow.
^xA cup of horror and desolation,
the cup of ^yyour sister Samaria;
34 ^zyou shall drink it and drain it out,
and gnaw its shards,
and tear your breasts;
for I have spoken, declares the Lord God.

Amos 7:7-8

7 ^aaThis is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with ^aba plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. 8 And the Lord said to me, ^ac“Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,

“Behold, I am setting ^ada plumb line
in the midst of my people Israel;
^aeI will never again pass by them;