ASSYRIA

Passages on this topic · 180

• Genesis 2:14

  The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

• Genesis 10:8

  Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.

• Genesis 10:9

  He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, “like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh”.

• Genesis 10:10

  The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

• Genesis 10:11

  Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

• Genesis 10:12

  and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah.

• Genesis 25:18

  They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.

• 2 Kings 15:19

  Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul one thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.

• 2 Kings 15:29

  In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.

• 2 Kings 17:3

  Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him, and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute.

• 2 Kings 17:4

  The king of Assyria found conspiracy 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 seized him, and bound him in prison.

• 2 Kings 17:5

  Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

• 2 Kings 17:6

  In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

• 2 Kings 17:7

  It was so because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

• 2 Kings 17:8

  and walked in the statutes of the nations whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.

• 2 Kings 17:9

  The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right against Yahweh their God; and they built high places for themselves in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;

• 2 Kings 17:10

  and they set up for themselves pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill, and under every green tree;

• 2 Kings 17:11

  and there they burned incense in all the high places, as the nations whom Yahweh carried away before them did; and they did wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger;

• 2 Kings 17:12

  and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, “You shall not do this thing.”

• 2 Kings 17:13

  Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”

• 2 Kings 17:14

  Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn’t believe in Yahweh their God.

• 2 Kings 17:15

  They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.

• 2 Kings 17:16

  They abandoned all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made molten images for themselves, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.

• 2 Kings 17:17

  They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.

• 2 Kings 17:18

  Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight. There was none left but the tribe of Judah only.

• 2 Kings 17:19

  Also Judah didn’t keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.

• 2 Kings 17:20

  Yahweh rejected all the offspring of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into the hands of raiders, until he had cast them out of his sight.

• 2 Kings 17:21

  For he tore Israel from David’s house; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king; and Jeroboam drove Israel from following Yahweh, and made them sin a great sin.

• 2 Kings 17:22

  The children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they didn’t depart from them

• 2 Kings 17:23

  until Yahweh removed Israel out of his sight, as he said by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria to this day.

• 2 Kings 17:24

  The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, from Cuthah, from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and lived in its cities.

• 2 Kings 17:25

  So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they didn’t fear Yahweh. Therefore Yahweh sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

• 2 Kings 17:26

  Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The nations which you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria don’t know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they kill them, because they don’t know the law of the god of the land.”

• 2 Kings 17:27

  Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, “Carry there one of the priests whom you brought from there; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land.”

• 2 Kings 18:9

  In the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.

• 2 Kings 18:10

  At the end of three years they took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.

• 2 Kings 18:11

  The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

• 2 Kings 18:12

  because they didn’t obey Yahweh their God’s voice, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded, and would not hear it or do it.

• 2 Kings 18:13

  Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.

• 2 Kings 18:14

  Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, “I have offended you. Return from me. That which you put on me, I will bear.” The king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

• 2 Kings 18:15

  Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in Yahweh’s house, and in the treasures of the king’s house.

• 2 Kings 18:16

  At that time, Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of Yahweh’s temple, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

• 2 Kings 18:17

  The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.

• 2 Kings 18:18

  When they had called to the king, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder came out to them.

• 2 Kings 18:19

  Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, “What confidence is this in which you trust?

• 2 Kings 18:20

  You say (but they are but vain words), ‘There is counsel and strength for war.’ Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

• 2 Kings 18:21

  Now, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand, and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him.

• 2 Kings 18:22

  But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God;’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?’

• 2 Kings 18:23

  Now therefore, please give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.

• 2 Kings 18:24

  How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

• 2 Kings 18:25

  Have I now come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’”’”

• 2 Kings 18:26

  Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Jews’ language, in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

• 2 Kings 18:27

  But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you, to speak these words? Hasn’t he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own urine with you?”

• 2 Kings 18:28

  Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spoke, saying, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.

• 2 Kings 18:29

  Thus says the king, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand.

• 2 Kings 18:30

  Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

• 2 Kings 18:31

  Don’t listen to Hezekiah.’ For thus says the king of Assyria, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat from his own vine, and everyone from his own fig tree, and everyone drink water from his own cistern;

• 2 Kings 18:32

  until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and of honey, that you may live, and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.”

• 2 Kings 18:33

  Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

• 2 Kings 18:34

  Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

• 2 Kings 18:35

  Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”

• 2 Kings 18:36

  But the people stayed quiet, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”

• 2 Kings 18:37

  Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, came with Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him Rabshakeh’s words.

• 2 Kings 23:29

  In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and king Josiah went against him; and Pharaoh Necoh killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

• 1 Chronicles 5:6

  and Beerah his son, whom Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive. He was prince of the Reubenites.

• 1 Chronicles 5:26

  So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day.

• 2 Chronicles 36:5

  Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in Yahweh his God’s sight.

• 2 Chronicles 36:6

  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon.

• 2 Chronicles 36:7

  Nebuchadnezzar also carried some of the vessels of Yahweh’s house to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.

• 2 Chronicles 36:8

  Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Chronicles 36:9

  Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.

• 2 Chronicles 36:10

  At the return of the year, king Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable vessels of Yahweh’s house, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 36:11

  Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 36:12

  He did that which was evil in Yahweh his God’s sight. He didn’t humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from Yahweh’s mouth.

• 2 Chronicles 36:13

  He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 36:14

  Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted Yahweh’s house which he had made holy in Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 36:15

  Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place;

• 2 Chronicles 36:16

  but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

• 2 Chronicles 36:17

  Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed. He gave them all into his hand.

• 2 Chronicles 36:18

  All the vessels of God’s house, great and small, and the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.

• 2 Chronicles 36:19

  They burned God’s house, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all of its valuable vessels.

• 2 Chronicles 36:20

  He carried those who had escaped from the sword away to Babylon, and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia,

• 2 Chronicles 36:21

  to fulfill Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate, it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

• Isaiah 7:17

  Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.

• Isaiah 7:18

  It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

• Isaiah 7:19

  They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges, and on all pastures.

• Isaiah 7:20

  In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.

• Isaiah 7:21

  It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep;

• Isaiah 7:22

  and it shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left within the land.

• Isaiah 7:23

  It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.

• Isaiah 7:24

  People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns.

• Isaiah 7:25

  All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.”

• Isaiah 8:4

  For before the child knows how to say, ‘My father,’ and, ‘My mother,’ the riches of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried away by the king of Assyria.”

• Isaiah 8:5

  Yahweh spoke to me yet again, saying,

• Isaiah 8:6

  “Because this people have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;

• Isaiah 8:7

  now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.

• Isaiah 8:8

  It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through; it will reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings will fill the width of your land, Immanuel.

• Isaiah 8:9

  Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!

• Isaiah 8:10

  Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand: for God is with us.”

• Isaiah 10:5

  Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

• Isaiah 10:6

  I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

• Isaiah 10:7

  However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.

• Isaiah 10:8

  For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings?

• Isaiah 10:9

  Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?”

• Isaiah 10:10

  As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

• Isaiah 10:11

  shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

• Isaiah 10:12

  Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his haughty looks.

• Isaiah 10:13

  For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.

• Isaiah 10:14

  My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”

• Isaiah 10:15

  Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

• Isaiah 10:16

  Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.

• Isaiah 10:17

  The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.

• Isaiah 10:18

  He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.

• Isaiah 10:19

  The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number.

• Isaiah 10:20

  It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

• Isaiah 10:21

  A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

• Isaiah 10:22

  For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

• Isaiah 10:23

  For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will make a full end, and that determined, throughout all the earth.

• Isaiah 10:24

  Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, says “My people who dwell in Zion, don’t be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did.

• Isaiah 10:25

  For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”

• Isaiah 10:26

  Yahweh of Armies will stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up like he did against Egypt.

• Isaiah 10:27

  It will happen in that day, that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.

• Isaiah 10:28

  He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage.

• Isaiah 10:29

  They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.

• Isaiah 10:30

  Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!

• Isaiah 10:31

  Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.

• Isaiah 10:32

  This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

• Isaiah 10:33

  Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.

• Isaiah 10:34

  He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.

• Isaiah 14:24

  Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

• Isaiah 14:25

  that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.

• Isaiah 14:26

  This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.

• Isaiah 14:27

  For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

• Isaiah 14:28

  This burden was in the year that king Ahaz died.

• Isaiah 19:23

  In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.

• Isaiah 19:24

  In that day, Israel will be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing within the earth;

• Isaiah 19:25

  because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.”

• Isaiah 30:27

  Behold, Yahweh’s name comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire.

• Isaiah 30:28

  His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.

• Isaiah 30:29

  You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock.

• Isaiah 30:30

  Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.

• Isaiah 30:31

  For through Yahweh’s voice the Assyrian will be dismayed. He will strike him with his rod.

• Isaiah 30:32

  Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which Yahweh will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons.

• Isaiah 30:33

  For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

• Isaiah 31:8

  “The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour him. He will flee from the sword, and his young men will become subject to forced labor.

• Isaiah 31:9

  His rock will pass away by reason of terror, and his princes will be afraid of the banner,” says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

• Isaiah 36:17

  until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

• Isaiah 37:21

  Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,

• Isaiah 37:22

  this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

• Isaiah 37:23

  Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

• Isaiah 37:24

  By your servants, have you defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field.

• Isaiah 37:25

  I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”

• Isaiah 37:26

  Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.

• Isaiah 37:27

  Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.

• Isaiah 37:28

  But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.

• Isaiah 37:29

  Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

• Isaiah 37:30

  This shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from the same; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

• Isaiah 37:31

  The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

• Isaiah 37:32

  For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.’

• Isaiah 37:33

  Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.

• Isaiah 37:34

  By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come to this city,’ says Yahweh.

• Isaiah 37:35

  ‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”

• Isaiah 37:36

  Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

• Jeremiah 1:15

  For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north,” says Yahweh. “They will come, and they will each set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls all around, and against all the cities of Judah.

• Jeremiah 50:17

  “Israel is a hunted sheep. The lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”

• Lamentations 5:6

  We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

• Ezekiel 27:23

  Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were your traffickers.

• Hosea 5:13

  “When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.

• Hosea 9:3

  They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

• Hosea 11:5

  “They won’t return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian will be their king, because they refused to repent.

• Hosea 11:11

  They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will settle them in their houses,” says Yahweh.

• Jonah 3:1

  Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the second time, saying,

• Jonah 3:2

  “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.”

• Jonah 3:3

  So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to Yahweh’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.

• Jonah 3:4

  Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”

• Micah 5:6

  They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in its gates. He will deliver us from the Assyrian, when he invades our land, and when he marches within our border.

• Zephaniah 2:13

  He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.

• Zephaniah 2:14

  Herds will lie down in the middle of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.

• Zephaniah 2:15

  This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.

• Zechariah 10:11

  He will pass through the sea of affliction, and will strike the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile will dry up; and the pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will depart.