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.

Bible References

Carried

Leviticus 26:32
I'll make the land so desolate that your enemies who live in it will be astonished."
Deuteronomy 4:25
"After you've borne children and grandchildren, have been there for a long time in the land, have become so corrupted that you make images of any form, and have done evil in the eyes of the LORD your God, you will provoke him to anger.
Deuteronomy 28:36
"The LORD will banish you and your king whom you will appoint over you to go to a nation that neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you'll serve other gods of wood and stone.
Deuteronomy 29:27
For this reason, the anger of the LORD raged against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that were written in this book.
Deuteronomy 30:18
I'm declaring to you today that you will surely be destroyed. You won't live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan River to enter and possess.
1 Kings 14:15
The LORD will attack Israel, and Israel will shake like a reed shakes in a river current! He will uproot Israel from this good land that he gave to their ancestors and he will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they erected their Asherim and provoked the LORD to become angry!
Amos 5:27
So I will cause you to be taken captive beyond Damascus," says the LORD, whose name is God of the Heavenly Armies.

Halah

2 Kings 19:12
Did the gods of those nations whom my ancestors destroyed deliver them, including Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and Eden's descendants in Telassar?
1 Chronicles 5:26
So the God of Israel incited King Pul of Assyria (also known as King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria), who took them prisoner and brought the descendants of Reuben, the descendants of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh to Halah, Habor, Hara, and to the Gozan River, where they remain to this day.
Isaiah 37:12
Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my ancestors save them the nations of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden, who were in Tel-assar?

The medes

Isaiah 13:17
Watch out! I'm stirring up the Medes against them, who care nothing for silver and take no delight in gold.
Isaiah 21:2
A dire vision has been announced to me: the traitor betrays, and the plunderer takes loot. Get up, Elam! Attack, Media! I am putting a stop to all the groaning she has caused.
Daniel 5:28
PERES: Your kingdom has been divided and will be given to the Medes and Persians."

General references

Deuteronomy 28:52
They'll besiege all your cities until your high and fortified walls in which you have trusted collapse throughout the land. Indeed, they will besiege all your cities, which the LORD your God gave you."
Isaiah 37:11
Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all countries, dooming them to destruction. So do you think you will be saved?
Ezekiel 23:9
Therefore, I turned her over to the control of her lovers, that is, into the control of the Assyrians for whom she lusted.

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