Place · Mesopotamia
Assyria
Passages set in Assyria
- 2Kgs 15:19 — And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
- 2Kgs 17:3 — Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.
- 2Kgs 17:6 — In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
- 2Kgs 18:13 — Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
- Hos 11:5 — He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.
- Isa 7:17 — The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
- Isa 10:5 — O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
- Mic 5:6 — And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth