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

And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies who dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

When you shall beget children, and children's children, and you shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of anything, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke him to anger:

The LORD shall bring you, and your king which you shall set over you, unto a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known; and there shall you serve other gods, of wood and stone.

And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:

I declare unto you this day, that you shall surely perish, and that you shall not prolong your days upon the land, which you pass over Jordan to go to possess.

For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their idol poles, provoking the LORD to anger.

Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.

Halah

Have the gods of the nations delivered them whom my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telasar?

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

Have the gods of the nations delivered them whom my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?

The medes

Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

A distressing vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer deals treacherously, and the plunderer plunders. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all its sighing have I made to cease.

PERES; Your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

General references

And he shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land: and he shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.

Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shall you be delivered?

Therefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.