2 Kings 15:19
15:19 Pul
king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem paid
him
a thousand talents
of silver to gain his support
and to solidify his control of the kingdom.
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,
Gilead, and Galilee, including all the territory of Naphtali. He deported the people
to Assyria.
2 Kings 16:7
16:7 Ahaz sent messengers to King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your dependent.
March up and rescue me from the power
of the king of Syria and the king of Israel, who have attacked
me.”
2 Kings 18:13
Sennacherib Invades Judah
18:13 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, King Sennacherib of Assyria marched up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.
2 Kings 19:36-37
19:36 So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and went on his way. He went home and stayed in Nineveh.
19:37 One day,
as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch,
his sons
Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword.
They escaped to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.
Isaiah 7:7-8
7:7 For this reason the sovereign master,
the
Lord, says:
“It will not take place;
it will not happen.
7:8 For Syria’s leader is Damascus,
and the leader of Damascus is Rezin.
Within sixty-five years Ephraim will no longer exist as a nation.
Isaiah 10:5-6
The Lord Turns on Arrogant Assyria
10:5 Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead,
a cudgel with which I angrily punish.
10:6 I sent him against a godless nation,
I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry,
to take plunder and to carry away loot,
to trample them down like dirt in the streets.
Isaiah 10:11-12
10:11 As I have done to Samaria and its idols,
so I will do to Jerusalem and its idols.”
10:12 But when the sovereign master finishes judging Mount Zion and Jerusalem, then I will punish the king of Assyria for what he has proudly planned and for the arrogant attitude he displays.