for the head.

Isaiah 7:9
The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not stand firm in your faith, then you will not stand at all."

2 Samuel 8:6
Then he placed garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Arameans became subject to David and brought him tribute. So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went.

within

Isaiah 8:4
For before the boy knows how to cry 'Father' or 'Mother, ' the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off to the king of Assyria."

Isaiah 17:1-3
This is an oracle concerning Damascus: "Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins. . . .

2 Kings 17:5
Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.

Ezra 4:2
they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the families, saying, "Let us build with you because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to Him since the time of King Esar-haddon of Assyria, who brought us here."

that it be not a people.

Hosea 1:6-10
Gomer again conceived and gave birth to a daughter, and the LORD said to Hosea, "Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I should ever forgive them. . . .