2 Kings 15:29
15:29 During Pekah’s reign over Israel, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor,
1 Gilead, and Galilee, including all the territory of Naphtali. He deported the people
2 to Assyria.
2 Kings 17:3-6
17:3 King Shalmaneser of Assyria threatened
3 him; Hoshea became his subject and paid him tribute.
17:4 The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt.
4 Hoshea had sent messengers to King So
5 of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him.
6
17:5 The king of Assyria marched through
7 the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years.
17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel
8 to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.
Jeremiah 30:7
30:7 Alas, what a terrible time of trouble it is! 9
There has never been any like it.
It is a time of trouble for the descendants of Jacob,
but some of them will be rescued out of it. 10
1 map For location see Map1-D2; Map2-D3; Map3-A2; Map4-C1.
2 tn Heb “them.”
3 tn Heb “went up against.”
4 tn Heb “and the king of Assyria found in Hoshea conspiracy.”
5 sn For discussion of this name, see HALOT 744 s.v. סוֹא and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 196.
6 tn Heb “and bound him in the house of confinement.”
7 tn Heb “went up against.”
8 tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.
9 tn Heb “Alas [or Woe] for that day will be great.” For the use of the particle “Alas” to signal a time of terrible trouble, even to sound the death knell for someone, see the translator’s note on 22:13.
10 tn Heb “It is a time of trouble for Jacob but he will be saved out of it.”