Tour · c. 732 BC

The fall of Israel

Hazor 2 Kgs 15:29
In the days of Pekah, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria takes Ijon, Abel-beth-maachah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carries the people captive to Assyria.
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Jerusalem 2 Kgs 16:5–8 · ≈ 140 km in a straight line
Rezin of Syria and Pekah of Israel besiege Ahaz in Jerusalem; Ahaz sends the silver and gold of the Temple and of the king's house to the king of Assyria: "I am thy servant and thy son."
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Damascus 2 Kgs 16:9–11 · ≈ 215 km in a straight line
The king of Assyria takes Damascus, carries its people to Kir and slays Rezin; Ahaz meets him there and sends home the pattern of its altar.
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Samaria 2 Kgs 17:3–5 · ≈ 170 km in a straight line
Hoshea withholds tribute and sends to So king of Egypt; Shalmaneser king of Assyria shuts him up in prison and besieges Samaria three years.
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Halah 2 Kgs 17:6 · ≈ 865 km in a straight line
In Hoshea's ninth year Samaria is taken, and Israel is carried away into Assyria and placed in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
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