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
The medes
General references
Bible References
Carried
Leviticus 26:32
And I will make your land a waste, a wonder to your haters living in it.
Deuteronomy 4:25
If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:
Deuteronomy 28:36
And you, and the king whom you have put over you, will the Lord take away to a nation strange to you and to your fathers; there you will be servants to other gods of wood and stone.
Deuteronomy 29:27
And so the wrath of the Lord was moved against this land, to send on it all the curse recorded in this book:
Deuteronomy 30:18
I give witness against you this day that destruction will certainly be your fate, and your days will be cut short in the land where you are going, the land of your heritage on the other side of Jordan.
1 Kings 14:15
And even now the hand of the Lord has come down on Israel, shaking it like a river-grass in the water; and, uprooting Israel from this good land, which he gave to their fathers, he will send them this way and that on the other side of the River; because they have made for themselves images, moving the Lord to wrath.
Amos 5:27
And I will send you away as prisoners farther than Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of armies.
Halah
2 Kings 19:12
Did the gods of the nations keep safe those on whom my fathers sent destruction, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
1 Chronicles 5:26
And the God of Israel put an impulse into the heart of Pul, king of Assyria, and of Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, who took them away as prisoners, all the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to Halah and Habor and Hara and to the river of Gozan, to this day.
Isaiah 37:12
Did the gods of the nations keep safe those on whom my fathers sent destruction, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
The medes
Isaiah 13:17
See, I am driving the Medes against them, who put no value on silver and have no pleasure in gold.
Isaiah 21:2
A vision of fear comes before my eyes; the worker of deceit goes on in his false way, and the waster goes on making waste. Up! Elam; to the attack! Media; I have put an end to her sorrow.
Daniel 5:28
Peres; your kingdom has been cut up and given to the Medes and Persians.
General references
Deuteronomy 28:52
Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all your land which the Lord your God has given you.
Isaiah 37:11
No doubt the story has come to your ears of what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, putting them to the curse: and will you be kept safe from their fate?
Ezekiel 23:9
For this cause I gave her up into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians on whom her desire was fixed.