Amos 3:11
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11 Therefore thus says the Lord God:
(A)“An adversary shall surround the land
and bring down[a] your defenses from you,
and (B)your strongholds shall be plundered.”
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- Amos 3:11 Hebrew An adversary, one who surrounds the land—he shall bring down
Amos 6:14
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14 “For behold, (A)I will raise up against you a nation,
O house of Israel,” declares the Lord, the God of hosts;
“and they shall oppress you from (B)Lebo-hamath
to the Brook of (C)the Arabah.”
Amos 2:5
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5 So (A)I will send a fire upon Judah,
and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.”
2 Kings 18:9-11
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9 In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, (A)Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it, 10 and at the end of three years he took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. 11 The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria and put them in (B)Halah, and on the (C)Habor, (D)the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,
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2 Kings 17:3-6
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3 (A)Against him came up (B)Shalmaneser king of Assyria. And Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute. 4 But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered 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. 5 Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria, and for three years he besieged it.
The Fall of Israel
6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria (C)captured Samaria, (D)and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria (E)and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of (F)Gozan, and in the cities of (G)the Medes.
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Amos 6:8
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8 (A)The Lord God has sworn by himself, declares the Lord, the God of hosts:
“I abhor (B)the pride of Jacob
and hate his strongholds,
(C)and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.”
Amos 3:10
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10 “They do not know how to do right,” declares the Lord,
(A)“those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.”
Hosea 11:5-6
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5 (A)They shall not[a] return to the land of Egypt,
but (B)Assyria shall be their king,
(C)because (D)they have refused to return to me.
6 (E)The sword shall rage against their cities,
consume the bars of their gates,
and devour them (F)because of their own counsels.
Footnotes
- Hosea 11:5 Or surely
Isaiah 10:9-11
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9 (A)Is not (B)Calno like (C)Carchemish?
Is not (D)Hamath like (E)Arpad?
(F)Is not (G)Samaria like Damascus?
10 As my hand has reached to (H)the kingdoms of the idols,
whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
11 shall I not do to Jerusalem and (I)her idols
(J)as I have done to Samaria and her images?”
Isaiah 10:5-6
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Judgment on Arrogant Assyria
5 Woe to Assyria, (A)the rod of my anger;
the staff in their hands is my fury!
6 Against a (B)godless nation I send him,
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take (C)spoil and seize plunder,
and to (D)tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isaiah 8:7-8
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7 therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them (A)the waters of (B)the River,[a] mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it (C)will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks, 8 and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, (D)reaching even to the neck, and its (E)outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, (F)O Immanuel.”
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- Isaiah 8:7 That is, the Euphrates
Isaiah 7:17-25
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17 (A)The Lord will bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father's house such days as have not come since the day that (B)Ephraim departed from Judah—the king of Assyria!”
18 In that day the Lord will (C)whistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19 And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines, and (D)in the clefts of the rocks, and on all the thornbushes, and on all the pastures.[a]
20 In that day (E)the Lord will (F)shave with a razor that is (G)hired beyond (H)the River[b]—with the king of Assyria—the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.
21 (I)In that day a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep, 22 and because of the abundance of milk that they give, he will eat curds, for everyone who is left in the land will eat (J)curds and honey.
23 In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels[c] of silver, will become (K)briers and thorns. 24 (L)With bow and arrows a man will come there, for all the land will be briers and thorns. 25 (M)And as for all the hills that used to be hoed with a hoe, you will not come there for fear (N)of briers and thorns, but they will become a place where cattle are let loose and where sheep tread.
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- Isaiah 7:19 Or watering holes, or brambles
- Isaiah 7:20 That is, the Euphrates
- Isaiah 7:23 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
2 Chronicles 36:19
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19 (A)And they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its precious vessels.
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2 Kings 15:29
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2 Kings 15:19
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19 (A)Pul[a] the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave (B)Pul a thousand talents[b] of silver, that he might help him (C)to confirm his hold on the royal power.
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- 2 Kings 15:19 Another name for Tiglath-pileser III (compare verse 29)
- 2 Kings 15:19 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
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