the king

2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of the reign of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.

2 Kings 19:11
Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, destroying them completely. Will you then be spared?

1 Chronicles 5:26
So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria (that is, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria) to take the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh into exile. And he brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river of Gozan, where they remain to this day.

Isaiah 7:8
For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people.

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 9:9-21
All the people will know it--Ephraim and the dwellers of Samaria. With pride and arrogance of heart they will say: . . .

Isaiah 10:5, 11
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath. . . .

Isaiah 37:12
Did the gods of the nations my fathers destroyed rescue them--the gods of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden in Telassar?

Hosea 8:8, 9
Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel. . . .

Hosea 9:3
They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.

Amos 5:1-3, 6, 25-27
Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you: . . .

Acts 7:43
You took along the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will carry you away beyond Babylon.'