The king of Assyria exiled the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.
So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria (that is, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria) to take the
Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of th
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he s
All the people will know it—Ephraim and the dwellers of Samaria. With pride and arrogance of heart they will say:
You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore
For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered a
Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Will
and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?”
For before the boy knows how to cry ‘Father’ or ‘Mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carr
Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one a
Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.
Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?