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.

2 Kings 17:23

17:23 Finally ⁴  the Lord rejected Israel ⁵  just as he had warned he would do ⁶  through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.

2 Kings 18:11-12

18:11 The king of Assyria deported the people of Israel ⁷  to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes. 18:12 This happened because they did not obey ⁸  the Lord their God and broke his agreement with them. ⁹  They did not pay attention to and obey all that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded. ¹⁰ 

Amos 5:27

5:27 and I will drive you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the Lord.

He is called the God who commands armies!

Acts 7:43

7:43 But you took along the tabernacle ¹¹  of Moloch ¹²  and the star of the ¹³  god Rephan, ¹⁴  the images you made to worship, but I will deport ¹⁵  you beyond Babylon.’ ¹⁶ 

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

[15:29]  ² tn Heb “them.”

[17:6]  ³ tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.

[17:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “until.”

[17:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “the Lord turned Israel away from his face.”

[17:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “just as he said.”

[18:11]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.

[18:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “listen to the voice of.”

[18:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “his covenant.”

[18:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “all that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded, and they did not listen and they did not act.”

[7:43]  ¹¹ tn Or “tent.”

[7:43]  ¹² sn Moloch was a Canaanite deity who was believed to be the god of the sky and the sun.

[7:43]  ¹³ 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.

[7:43]  ¹⁴ 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.

[7:43]  ¹⁵ tn Or “I will make you move.”

[7:43]  ¹⁶ sn A quotation from Amos 5:25-27. This constituted a prediction of the exile.