2 Kings 15 (JND) - Bible Truth Library

Tiglath-pileser.Some suppose Tiglath-pileser to be the son of Sardanapalus: but the learned Prideaux makes him the same as Arbaces the Mede, called by Ælian, Thelgamus, and by Castor, Ninus Junior, who, with Belesis, headed the conspiracy against Sardanapalus, and fixed his royal seat at Nineveh, as Belesis, called in Scripture Baladan (Is 39:1), did his at Babylon.

He reigned nineteen years, from A.M. 3257 to A.M. 3276.

2 Kings 16:7• ⁷And Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who have risen up against me. (2 Kings 16:7)

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1 Chron. 5:6,26• ⁶Beerah his son, whom Tilgath-Pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites.
²⁶And 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, the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan,--unto this day. (1 Chron. 5:6,26)

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2 Chron. 28:20‑21• ²⁰And Tilgath-Pilneser king of Assyria came to him, and troubled him, and did not support him.
²¹For Ahaz stripped the house of Jehovah, and the house of the king and of the princes, and gave to the king of Assyria; but he was of no help to him. (2 Chron. 28:20‑21)

Tiglath-pilneser.

Ijon.

1 Kings 15:20• ²⁰And Ben-Hadad hearkened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his forces against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-Beth-Maachah, and all Kinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali. (1 Kings 15:20)

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2 Chron. 16:4• ⁴And Ben-hadad hearkened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his forces against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon and Dan and Abelmaim, and all the store-magazines of the cities of Naphtali. (2 Chron. 16:4)

Abel-beth-maachah.

2 Sam. 20:14‑15• ¹⁴who went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, and to Beth-Maacah, and all the Berim; and they gathered together, and went also after him.
¹⁵And they came and besieged him in Abel-Beth-Maacah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it was raised in the trench; and all the people that were with Joab sapped the wall, to throw it down. (2 Sam. 20:14‑15)

Janoah.

Josh. 16:6• ⁶and the border went forth westwards to Micmethath on the north; and the border turned eastwards to Taanath-Shiloh, and passed by it eastwards to Janohah, (Josh. 16:6)

Janohah.

Kedesh.

Josh. 19:37• ³⁷and Kedesh, and Edrei, and En-Hazor, (Josh. 19:37)

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Josh. 20:7• ⁷And they hallowed Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kirjath-Arba, that is, Hebron, in the hill-country of Judah. (Josh. 20:7)

Hazor.

Josh. 11:1,10,13• ¹And it came to pass when Jabin king of Hazor heard this, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,
¹⁰And Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and smote the king thereof with the sword; for Hazor was in times past the head of all those kingdoms.
¹³Only, all the cities that stood still upon their hills Israel did not burn, save Hazor alone, which Joshua burned. (Josh. 11:1,10,13)

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Josh. 12:19• ¹⁹the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one; (Josh. 12:19)

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Judg. 4:2• ²And Jehovah sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; and the captain of his army was Sisera, who dwelt in Harosheth-Goim. (Judg. 4:2)

Gilead.

Num. 32:1,40• ¹And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had much cattle, a very great multitude; and they saw the land of Jaazer, and the land of Gilead, and behold, the place was a place for cattle.
⁴⁰And Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein. (Num. 32:1,40)

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Deut. 3:15• ¹⁵And I gave Gilead to Machir. (Deut. 3:15)

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Amos 1:3,13• ³Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke my sentence, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.
¹³Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border. (Amos 1:3,13)

Galilee.

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1 Kings 9:11• ¹¹Hiram the king of Tyre having furnished Solomon with cedar-trees and cypress-trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,--that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. (1 Kings 9:11)

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Isa. 9:1‑2• ¹Nevertheless the darkness shall not be as when the distress was in the land, at the time he at first lightly, and afterwards heavily, visited the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,--the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:
²the people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them light hath shone. (Isa. 9:1‑2)

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Matt. 4:15‑16• ¹⁵Land of Zabulon and land of Nepthalim, way of the sea beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:
¹⁶--the people sitting in darkness has seen a great light, and to those sitting in the country and shadow of death, to them has light sprung up. (Matt. 4:15‑16)

carried them.

2 Kings 17:6,23• ⁶In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
²³until Jehovah had removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said through all his servants the prophets; and Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria, unto this day. (2 Kings 17:6,23)

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Lev. 26:32,38‑39• ³²And I will bring the land into desolation; that your enemies who dwell there in may be astonished at it.
³⁸And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
³⁹And they that remain of you shall waste away through their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also through the iniquities of their fathers shall they waste away with them. (Lev. 26:32,38‑39)

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Deut. 4:26‑27• ²⁶I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye pass over the Jordan to possess it: ye shall not prolong your days on it, but shall be utterly destroyed.
²⁷And Jehovah will scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left a small company among the nations to which Jehovah will lead you. (Deut. 4:26‑27)

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Deut. 28:25,64‑65• ²⁵Jehovah will give thee up smitten before thine enemies; thou shalt go out against them one way, and by seven ways shalt thou flee before them; and thou shalt be driven hither and thither into all the kingdoms of the earth.
⁶⁴And Jehovah will scatter thee among all peoples, from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and thou shalt there serve other gods, whom thou hast not known, neither thou nor thy fathers, wood and stone.
⁶⁵And among these nations shalt thou have no rest, neither shall the sole of thy foot have a resting-place, and Jehovah shall give thee there a trembling heart, languishing of the eyes, and pining of the soul. (Deut. 28:25,64‑65)

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Isa. 1:7• ⁷Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers eat it up in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. (Isa. 1:7)

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Isa. 7:20• ²⁰In that day will the Lord, with a razor which is hired beyond the river, with the king of Assyria, shave the head and the hair of the feet, yea, the beard also will it take away. (Isa. 7:20)

• The results of his reign are summarized in 2 Kings 15:29. (“Pekahiah and Pekah, Kings of Israel: 2 Kings 15:23-31” by H.L. Rossier)

• (1 Chron. 5:26). The dismemberment of the kingdom of Ephraim begins with the tribes which, for their own convenience, had chosen their portion on the other side of the Jordan. (“Pekahiah and Pekah, Kings of Israel: 2 Kings 15:23-31” by H.L. Rossier)

• Christians who do not enter resolutely and without a backward glance upon the ground where, like the Jordan, the death of Christ an insurmountable barrier between them and the world, such Christians are the first to be exposed to the attacks of the enemy. (“Pekahiah and Pekah, Kings of Israel: 2 Kings 15:23-31” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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