2 Kings 17:5-6
17:5 The king of Assyria marched through
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
to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.
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 18:2
18:2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem.
His mother
was Abi,
the daughter of Zechariah.
2 Kings 1:5-6
1:5 When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, “Why have you returned?”
1:6 They replied, “A man came up to meet us. He told us, “Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, ‘This is what the Lord says: “You must think there is no God in Israel! That explains why you are sending for an oracle from Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron. Therefore you will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die.”’”
Isaiah 8:7-8
8:7 So look, the sovereign master
is bringing up against them the turbulent and mighty waters of the Euphrates River
– the king of Assyria and all his majestic power. It will reach flood stage and overflow its banks.
8:8 It will spill into Judah, flooding and engulfing, as it reaches to the necks of its victims. He will spread his wings out over your entire land,
O Immanuel.”
Isaiah 10:6
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.