2 Kings 17:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

Carried

Amos 5:27

Halah

2 Kings 19:12

1 Chronicles 5:26

Isaiah 37:12

The medes

Isaiah 13:17

Isaiah 21:2

Daniel 5:28

General references

Deuteronomy 28:52

Isaiah 37:11

Ezekiel 23:9

Bible References

Carried

I will make the land desolate so that your enemies who settle in it will be appalled over it.

“When you become the father of children and children’s children and have remained long in the land, and act corruptly, and make an idol in the form of anything, and do that which is evil in the sight of the Lord your God so as to provoke Him to anger,

The Lord will bring you and your king, whom you set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone.

Therefore, the anger of the Lord burned against that land, to bring upon it every curse which is written in this book;

I declare to you today that you shall surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess it.

“For the Lord will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the Lord to anger.

Therefore, I will make you go into exile beyond Damascus,” says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts.

Halah

Did the gods of those nations which my fathers destroyed deliver them, even Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar?

So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul, king of Assyria, even the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away into exile, namely the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara and to the river of Gozan, to this day.

Did the gods of those nations which my fathers have destroyed deliver them, even Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar?

The medes

Behold, I am going to stir up the Medes against them,
Who will not value silver or take pleasure in gold.

A harsh vision has been shown to me;
The treacherous one still deals treacherously, and the destroyer still destroys.
Go up, Elam, lay siege, Media;
I have made an end of all the groaning she has caused.

‘PERĒS’—your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

General references

It shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it shall besiege you in all your towns throughout your land which the Lord your God has given you.

Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, destroying them completely. So will you be spared?

Therefore, I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted.