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2 Kings 18

2 Kings 18:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Andh the king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
of Assyria
'Ashshuwr (Hebrew #804)
apparently from 833 (in the sense of successful); Ashshur, the second son of Shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e. Assyria), its region and its empire
KJV usage: Asshur, Assur, Assyria, Assyrians. See 838.
Pronounce: ash-shoor'
Origin: or iAshshur {ash-shoor'}
did carry away
galah (Hebrew #1540)
to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense); by implication, to exile (captives being usually stripped); figuratively, to reveal
KJV usage: + advertise, appear, bewray, bring, (carry, lead, go) captive (into captivity), depart, disclose, discover, exile, be gone, open, X plainly, publish, remove, reveal, X shamelessly, shew, X surely, tell, uncover.
Pronounce: gaw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
unto Assyria
'Ashshuwr (Hebrew #804)
apparently from 833 (in the sense of successful); Ashshur, the second son of Shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e. Assyria), its region and its empire
KJV usage: Asshur, Assur, Assyria, Assyrians. See 838.
Pronounce: ash-shoor'
Origin: or iAshshur {ash-shoor'}
, and put
nachah (Hebrew #5148)
to guide; by implication, to transport (into exile, or as colonists)
KJV usage: bestow, bring, govern, guide, lead (forth), put, straiten.
Pronounce: naw-khaw'
Origin: a primitive root
them in Halah
Chalach (Hebrew #2477)
Chalach, a region of Assyria
KJV usage: Halah.
Pronounce: khal-akh'
Origin: probably of foreign origin
and in Habor
Chabowr (Hebrew #2249)
united; Chabor, a river of Assyria
KJV usage: Habor.
Pronounce: khaw-bore'
Origin: from 2266
by the river
nahar (Hebrew #5104)
a stream (including the sea; expec. the Nile, Euphrates, etc.); figuratively, prosperity
KJV usage: flood, river.
Pronounce: naw-hawr'
Origin: from 5102
of Gozan
Gowzan (Hebrew #1470)
a quarry (as a place of cutting stones); Gozan, a province of Assyria
KJV usage: Gozan.
Pronounce: go-zawn'
Origin: probably from 1468
, and in the cities
`iyr (Hebrew #5892)
or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pronounce: eer
Origin: or (in the plural) par {awr}
of the Medes
Maday (Hebrew #4074)
Madai, a country of central Asia
KJV usage: Madai, Medes, Media.
Pronounce: maw-dah'-ee
Origin: of foreign derivation
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1 Chron. 5:26• 26{i}And 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.{/i} (1 Chron. 5:26)

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Assyria,
Gozan,
Habor,
Halah,
Israel,
Kings,
Medes; Media,
River

Cross References

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the king.
2 Kings 17:6• 6{i}In 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.{/i} (2 Kings 17:6)
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2 Kings 19:11• 11{i}Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all countries, destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?{/i} (2 Kings 19:11)
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1 Chron. 5:26• 26{i}And 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.{/i} (1 Chron. 5:26)
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Isa. 7:8• 8For the head of Syria [is] Damascus, and the head of Damascus [is] Rezin; and within sixty-five years shall Ephraim be broken, so as to be not a people. (Isa. 7:8)
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Isa. 8:4• 4For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria. (Isa. 8:4)
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Isa. 9:9‑21• 9And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in pride and stoutness of heart,
 10The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will replace [them] with cedars.
 11And Jehovah will set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and stir up his enemies,
 12the Syrians before and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.
 13But the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek Jehovah of hosts.
 14And Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day.
 15The elder and honourable, he [is] the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he [is] the tail.
 16For the leaders of this people mislead [them]; and [they that are] led by them are swallowed up.
 17Therefore the Lord will not rejoice in their young men, neither will he have mercy on the fatherless and widows. For everyone [is] a hypocrite and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.
 18For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briars and thorns: yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in thick clouds of smoke.
 19Through the wrath of Jehovah of hosts is the land burnt up: the people also are as the fuel of fire; no man spareth his brother.
 20And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
 21Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; [and] they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still. (Isa. 9:9‑21)
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Isa. 10:5,11• 5Ho, Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation.
 11shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her images? (Isa. 10:5,11)
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Isa. 37:12• 12Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that [were] in Thelassar? (Isa. 37:12)
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Hos. 8:8‑9• 8Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
 9For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. (Hos. 8:8‑9)
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Hos. 9:3• 3{i}They shall not dwell in Jehovah's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and in Assyria shall they eat that which is unclean.{/i} (Hos. 9:3)
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Amos 5:1‑3,6,25‑27• 1{i}Hear this word, a lamentation, which I take up against you, O house of Israel.{/i}
 2{i}The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more arise: she is cast down upon her land; there is none to raise her up.{/i}
 3{i}For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left, for the house of Israel.{/i}
 6Seek Jehovah, and live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.
 25Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
 26But ye have borne the shrines of your king, and the basis of your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
 27Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts. (Amos 5:1‑3,6,25‑27)
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Acts 7:43• 43Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your god Remphan, the forms which ye made to worship them; and I will transport you beyond Babylon. (Acts 7:43)
Halah.It is thought, with much probability, that Halah, or Chalach, is Ptolemy's Calachene, the northern part of Assyria; that Habor, or Chabor, is the mountain or mountainous country, between Media and Assyria, called by Ptolemy, [Chaboras,] Chaboras; and that Gozan is Gauzanitis of Ptolemy, situated between that mountain and the Caspian sea, and between the two channels of the river Cyrus.

J. N. Darby Translation

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And the king of Assyria carried away Israel to Assyria, and settled them in Halah and by the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes;

W. Kelly Translation

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And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel into Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes: