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 myself will lay waste the land, and your enemies who are living in it shall be appalled over it.

"When you have had children and {grandchildren} and you have grown old in the land and you act corruptly and you make a divine image [of] the form of anything and you do evil in the eyes of Yahweh your God, [thus] provoking him to anger,

Yahweh will bring you and your king whom you set up over you to a nation that you or your ancestors have not known, and there you will serve other gods [of] wood and stone.

So {the anger of Yahweh was kindled} against that land to bring upon it all the curses written in this scroll,

I declare to you {today} that you will certainly perish; {you will not extend your time} on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to go there to take possession of it.

Yahweh will strike Israel as one shakes the reed plant in the water, and he will root Israel up from this good land that he gave to their ancestors. He will scatter them beyond the River because they have made their sacred poles [which are] provoking Yahweh.

And I will deport you beyond Damascus," says Yahweh--the God of hosts [is] his name.

Halah

Did the gods of the nations that my {predecessors} destroyed deliver them? [Not] Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, [nor] the children of Eden who [were] in Tel Assar.

So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul, king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tiglath-Pilneser, king of Assyria, and he took them [into exile], namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. And he brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river Gozan, until this day.

Did the gods of the nations that my {predecessors} destroyed deliver them--Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the sons of Eden who [were] in Telassar?

The medes

Look! I [am] stirring the Medes up against them, who do not value silver and do not delight in gold.

A hard revelation is told to me; the treacherous deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; lay siege, Media! I put an end to all of her sighing.

" 'Peres'--your kingdom has been divided and given to [the] Medes and Persians.'"

General references

And it shall besiege you in all your towns {until your high and fortified walls fall}, which you [are] trusting in {throughout your land}; and it shall besiege you in all of your towns in all of your land that Yahweh your God has given to you.

Look! you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands to destroy them, and you--shall you be delivered?

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