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 

[15:29]  ¹ map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 D3; Map3 A2; Map4 C1.

[15:29]  ² tn Heb “them.”

[17:3]  ³ tn Heb “went up against.”

[17:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the king of Assyria found in Hoshea conspiracy.”

[17:4]  ⁵ sn For discussion of this name, see HALOT 744 s.v. סוֹא and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 196.

[17:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “and bound him in the house of confinement.”

[17:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “went up against.”

[17:6]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.

[30:7]  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.

[30:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “It is a time of trouble for Jacob but he will be saved out of it.”