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2 Kings 16:7

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So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me from the hand of the king of Aram and from the hand of the king of Israel, who are rising up against me.”

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In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel of Beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, Galilee, and all the land of Naphtali, and then exiled them to Assyria.

Assyria will not save us, we will not ride on horses. We will no longer say, ‘Our God,’ to the work of our hands. In You the orphan finds mercy.”

Our eyes failed us, watching vainly for help; in our watchtowers we watched for a nation that could not save us.

Thus says the Lord: Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart departs from the Lord.

So Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came against him, but he brought him distress and not strength.

At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria for help.

So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul the king of Assyria, even the spirit of Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, and he led the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh into exile and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and to the river of Gozan to this day.

The king of Israel answered, “My lord, O king, just as you have said, I and all that I own are yours.”

The Lord was with him. Wherever he went, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.

For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves with the children of strangers.

You have played the harlot also with the Assyrians because you were insatiable. Indeed, you have played the harlot with them, and yet could not be satisfied.

Oholah played the harlot when she was Mine. And she lusted after her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,

She lusted after the Assyrians her neighbors, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

What will you say when He appoints over you those you yourself had taught to be companions to you? Shall not sorrows take hold of you, as a woman in labor?

Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense; they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.




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