In the days of Pekah the king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser the king of Assyria came and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and removed them to Assyria.
And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, and he exiled them; even the Reubenites; and the Gadites; and the half tribe of Manasseh. And he brought them to Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the Gozan River, to this day.
And the runners went with letters from the king’s hand, and his leaders, to all Israel and Judah; even by the king’s command, saying, O sons of Israel return to Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. And He shall return to the remnant left of you from the palm of the king of Assyria.
For you said, No! For we will flee on a horse. Therefore you shall flee. Also, you say, We will ride on swift ones. On account of this, those who pursue you shall be swift ones.
Jehovah shall bring the king of Assyria on you, and on your people, and on your father’s house, by the king of Assyria, days which have not come since the days Ephraim turned aside from Judah.
In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired beyond the River, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet, and also it shall sweep away the beard.
Yes, you shall go out from this place, and your hands on your head. For Jehovah has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper by them.
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to King Jareb. And he was not able to heal you, and not did he cure you of your wound.