After these things, and this faithfulness, Sancheriv king of Ashur came, and entered into Yehudah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for himself.
There came against the land Pul the king of Ashur; and Menachem gave Pul one thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Ashur took Shomron, and carried Yisra'el away to Ashur, and placed them in Chalach, and on the Chavor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Madai.
After all this, when Yoshiyahu had prepared the temple, Nekho king of Egypt went up to fight against Karkemish by the Perat: and Yoshiyahu went out against him.
Now it happened in the fourteenth year of king Chizkiyahu, that Sancheriv king of Ashur attacked all of the fortified cities of Yehudah, and captured them.
He who breaks open the way goes up before them. They break through the gate, and go out. And their king passes on before them, with the LORD at their head.