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 17:6

17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel ³  to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.

Acts 7:43

7:43 But you took along the tabernacle ⁴  of Moloch ⁵  and the star of the ⁶  god Rephan, ⁷  the images you made to worship, but I will deport ⁸  you beyond Babylon.’ ⁹ 

¹ map For location see Map1-D2; Map2-D3; Map3-A2; Map4-C1.

² tn Heb “them.”

³ tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.

⁴ tn Or “tent.”

⁵ sn Moloch was a Canaanite deity who was believed to be the god of the sky and the sun.

⁶ tc ‡ Most mss, including several important ones (Ì⁷⁴ א A C E Ψ 33 1739 Ï h p vg sy^h mae bo Cyr), have ὑμῶν (Jumwn, “your”) here, in conformity with the LXX of Amos 5:26. But other significant and diverse witnesses lack the pronoun: The lack of ὑμῶν in B D 36 453 gig sy^p sa Ir^lat Or is difficult to explain if it is not the original wording here. NA²⁷ has the word in brackets, indicating some doubt as to its authenticity.

⁷ sn Rephan (῾Ραιφάν, RJaifan) was a pagan deity. The term was a name for Saturn. It was variously spelled in the mss (BDAG 903 s.v. has Rompha as an alternate spelling). The references cover a range of deities and a history of unfaithfulness.

⁸ tn Or “I will make you move.”

⁹ sn A quotation from Amos 5:25-27. This constituted a prediction of the exile.