Amos 3:11
Therefore thus saith Adonoi Hashem: 1 An adversary shall surround the land; 1 and he shall bring down thy strongholds from thee, 1 and thy fortresses shall be plundered.
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2 Kings 15:19And Pul Melech Ashur (Assyria) came against HaAretz and Menachem gave Pul a thousand talents of kesef, that his yad might be with him, + 15:19 supporting Menachem to make the Mamlakhah chazakah in his yad.
2 Kings 17:3Against him came up Shalmaneser Melech Ashur; and Hoshea became his eved (vassal) and paid him minchah (tribute).
2 Chronicles 36:19And they burned the Beis HaElohim, and broke down the Chomat Yerushalayim, and burned all the palaces thereof with eish, and destroyed all its precious vessels. + 36:19 Tisha B'Av
Isaiah 7:17Hashem shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon the Bais of thy father, yamim such as have not come since the yom when Ephrayim departed from Yehudah: + 7:17 2Kgs 15:29; 16:9 even Melech Ashur (Assyria).
Isaiah 10:5O Ashur, the rod of Mine anger, 1 in whose yad is the mateh of My wrath. 1
Hosea 11:5Will they not return into Eretz Mitzrayim? 1 And will not the Assyrian be his melech, 1 because they refused to make teshuvah. 1
Matthew Henry on Amos 3:10-15
Israel Convicted and Condemned. ( b. c. 790.) 9 Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof. 10 For they know not to do right, saith the Lord , who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. 11 Therefore thus saith the Lord God ; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee,… Read the whole commentary →