19 (A)Pul[a] king of Assyria came against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his [b]hand might be with him to (B)strengthen the kingdom under his control.

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  1. 2 Kings 15:19 Tiglath-Pileser III, v. 29
  2. 2 Kings 15:19 Support

Now it happened, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he executed his servants (A)who had murdered his father the king.

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25 And they were unfaithful to the God of their fathers, and (A)played the harlot after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them. 26 So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of (B)Pul king of Assyria, that is, (C)Tiglath-Pileser[a] king of Assyria. He carried the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh into captivity. He took them to (D)Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river of Gozan to this day.

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  1. 1 Chronicles 5:26 Heb. Tilgath-Pilneser

16 At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave [a]it to the king of Assyria.

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  1. 2 Kings 18:16 Lit. them

The idol also shall be carried to Assyria
As a present for King (A)Jareb.
Ephraim shall receive shame,
And Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

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For they have gone up to Assyria,
Like (A)a wild donkey alone by itself;
Ephraim (B)has hired lovers.
10 Yes, though they have hired among the nations,
Now (C)I will gather them;
And they shall [a]sorrow a little,
Because of the [b]burden of (D)the king of princes.

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  1. Hosea 8:10 Or begin to diminish
  2. Hosea 8:10 Or oracle or proclamation

Thus says the Lord:

(A)“Cursed is the man who trusts in man
And makes (B)flesh his [a]strength,
Whose heart departs from the Lord.

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  1. Jeremiah 17:5 Lit. arm

The Government of the Promised Son(A)

Nevertheless (B)the gloom will not be upon her who is distressed,
As when at (C)first He lightly esteemed
The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,
And (D)afterward more heavily oppressed her,
By the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan,
In Galilee of the Gentiles.

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(A)Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him; and Hoshea (B)became his vassal, and paid him tribute money. And the king of Assyria uncovered a conspiracy by Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and brought no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.

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And Ahaz (A)took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasuries of the king’s house, and sent it as a present to the king of Assyria.

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18 And Jehoash king of Judah (A)took all the sacred things that his fathers, Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own sacred things, and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the Lord and in the king’s house, and sent them to Hazael king of Syria. Then he went away from Jerusalem.

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13 “When Ephraim saw his sickness,
And Judah saw his (A)wound,
Then Ephraim went (B)to Assyria
And sent to King Jareb;
Yet he cannot cure you,
Nor heal you of your wound.

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