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An oracle concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins.

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An oracle concerning Moab. Because Ar of Moab is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone; because Kir of Moab is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone.

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"The three forms of serpent life (...) may represent the three Assyrian kings named above (Tiglath-pileser,Sargon, Sennacherib), from whose invasions the Philistines were to suffer. Each form was m...

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highlighted Isaiah 14:29 ESV

Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, that the rod that struck you is broken, for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent.

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highlighted Isaiah 14:14 ESV

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.'

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highlighted Isaiah 14:12-13 ESV

"How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!

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highlighted Isaiah 14:2 ESV

And the peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the Lord's land as male and female slaves. They will take captive those who were their captors, and rule over those who oppressed them.

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highlighted Isaiah 14:1 ESV

For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

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finished reading 2 Chronicles 28, 2 Kings 16, 2 Kings 17 in Chronological Bible Reading Plan:

Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father David had done,...

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highlighted 2 Kings 17:33 ESV

So they feared the Lord but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

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highlighted 2 Kings 17:32 ESV

They also feared the Lord and appointed from among themselves all sorts of people as priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.

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highlighted 2 Kings 17:28 ESV

So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel and taught them how they should fear the Lord.

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highlighted 2 Kings 17:27 ESV

Then the king of Assyria commanded, "Send there one of the priests whom you carried away from there, and let him go and dwell there and teach them the law of the god of the land."

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highlighted 2 Kings 17:24 ESV

And the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the people of Israel. And they took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.

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highlighted 2 Kings 17:20 ESV

And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

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highlighted 2 Kings 17:18 ESV

Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but the tribe of Judah only.

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highlighted 2 Kings 17:6 ESV

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

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highlighted 2 Kings 17:5 ESV

Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria, and for three years he besieged it.

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highlighted 2 Kings 17:4 ESV

But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.

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highlighted 2 Kings 17:3 ESV

Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria. And Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.

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