19 (A)Pul, the king of Assyria, came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a [a]thousand talents of silver so that his hand might be with him to (B)strengthen the [b]kingdom [c]under his rule.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 15:19 About 38 tons or 34 metric tons
  2. 2 Kings 15:19 Or royal power
  3. 2 Kings 15:19 Lit in his hand

29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel, [a](A)Tiglath-pileser the king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and (B)he led [b]their populations into exile to Assyria.

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  1. 2 Kings 15:29 In 1 Chr 5:6, 26, Tilgath-pilneser
  2. 2 Kings 15:29 Lit them

(A)Shalmaneser the king of Assyria marched (B)against him, and Hoshea became his servant and paid him tribute. But the king of Assyria uncovered a conspiracy by Hoshea, who had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and had then brought no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; so the king of Assyria arrested him and confined him in prison.

Then the king of Assyria invaded the entire land, and went up to (C)Samaria and besieged it for three years.

Israel Captive

In the ninth year of Hoshea, (D)the king of Assyria captured Samaria and (E)led the people of Israel into exile to Assyria, and (F)settled them in Halah and Habor, on the river of (G)Gozan, and (H)in the cities of the Medes.

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they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers’ households, and said to them, “Let us build with you, for like you, we seek your God; (A)and we have been sacrificing to Him since the days of (B)Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here.”

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10 and the rest of the nations which the great and honorable [a]Osnappar deported and settled in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the region beyond the Euphrates River. (A)And now

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 4:10 I.e., prob. Ashurbanipal

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