Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.

Tilgath-pilneser

General references

Bible References

Tilgath-pilneser

2 Kings 15:29
In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon and Abel-beth-maacah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
Hosea 5:13
When Ephraim saw his sickness,
And Judah his wound,
Then Ephraim went to Assyria
And sent to King Jareb.
But he is unable to heal you,
Or to cure you of your wound.

Distressed him

2 Kings 17:5
Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land and went up to Samaria and besieged it three years.
Isaiah 7:20
In that day the Lord will shave with a razor, hired from regions beyond the Euphrates (that is, with the king of Assyria), the head and the hair of the legs; and it will also remove the beard.
Isaiah 30:3
“Therefore the safety of Pharaoh will be your shame
And the shelter in the shadow of Egypt, your humiliation.
Jeremiah 2:37
“From this place also you will go out
With your hands on your head;
For the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust,
And you will not prosper with them.”

General references

Proverbs 25:19
Like a bad tooth and an unsteady foot
Is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble.

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