The Captivity of Israel: Assyria's Invasion and the Faith of Hezekiah
Explore the historical account of Israel's captivity by Assyria, including the reasons behind it, Assyrian leadership involved, and the details of how Israel was taken captive. Learn about the faithfulness of King Hezekiah and his reforms during this tumultuous period in Judah's history.
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Divided Kingdom II Lesson 12 Israel Taken Captive Assyria Invades Judah
Overall Context The Kings Judah Israel Amaziah Uzziah Jotham Ahaz Hezekiah Jereboam 2 Zechariah Shallum Menahem Pekahiah Pekah Hoshea
Last Lesson - Hezekiahs Reforms Destruction of Idols Support for the Priests and Levites Hezekiah s Faithfulness
Hezekiahs Faithfulness to God Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah, and he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God. And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, in the law and in the commandment, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart. So he prospered. 2 Chron 31:20-21
Israel Taken Captive Israel Taken Captive Reasons Why Israel Was Taken Captive
Israel Taken Captive Assyrian Leadership: Tiglath-Pileser (Pul) Shalmaneser V, Pul s son Sargon II, Shalmaneser V s brother Sennacherib, Sargon II s son
Israel Taken Captive Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, made Hoshea his vassal Hoshea paid Shalmaneser tribute money for a while Hoshea tried to get help from So, king of Egypt, and didn t pay Shalmaneser Shalmaneser bound Hoshea in prison
Israel Taken Captive The king of Assyria besieged Samaria for 3 years Was Hoshea bound in prison for the whole 3 years? This was the 7thyear of Hoshea s reign This was the 4thyear of Hezekiah s reign In the ninth year of Hoshea, Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away captive to Assyria in 721 BC This was the 6thyear of Hezekiah s reign
Israel Taken Captive They were placed: In Halah By the Habor The River of Gozan The Cities of the Medes
Israel Taken Captive Sargon II took the throne, abolished the taxation and labor policies, and ended the sieges his brother's administration had prolonged. He conquered Samaria and destroyed the kingdom of Israel. Sargon's inscriptions record that he deported 27,290 Israelites from their homeland and re-settled them to regions throughout the empire from Anatolia across to the Zagros Mountains (the extent of the Assyrian Empire under his reign, cited in Pritchard, p. 195). https://www.worldhistory.org/Sargon_II/
Reasons Why Israel Was Taken Captive Lived like the nations the Lord had cast out Built high places Burned incense on the high places Caused their children to pass through the fire Worshipped the host of heaven Practiced witchcraft and soothsaying
Reasons Why Israel Was Taken Captive When you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you. Deut 18:9-12
Reasons Why Israel Was Taken Captive Worshipped Idols Set up sacred pillars and wooden images Feared other gods Made molded image and two calves Served Baal
Reasons Why Israel Was Taken Captive You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God Ex 20:3-5
Reasons Why Israel Was Taken Captive Rejected God Would not listen to God Rejected God s statutes Rejected the covenant God had made with their fathers Left all the commandments of the Lord
Reasons Why Israel Was Taken Captive So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. Ex 34:28
Reasons Why Israel Was Taken Captive Lev 26:14-17 But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments, and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant, I also will do this to you:
Reasons Why Israel Was Taken Captive I will even appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. I will set My face against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you.
Reasons Why Israel Was Taken Captive Provoked God to Anger
Reasons Why Israel Was Taken Captive Neh 9:17 But You are God, Ready to pardon, Gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, Abundant in kindness Ps 103:8 The Lord is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy. Ps 156:8 The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, Slow to anger and great in mercy.
Reasons Why Israel Was Taken Captive Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from His sight; there was none left but the tribe of Judah alone. 2 Kings 17:18
The Samaritans The king of Assyria (Sargon II) brought people from other places to live in Samaria: Babylon Cuthah Ava Hamath Sepharvaim
The Samaritans Who Were They? In 721 B.C., the northern kingdom of Israel fell to the Assyrians. Many of the people of Israel were led off to Assyria as captives, but some remained in the land and intermarried with foreigners planted there by the Assyrians. These half-Jewish, half-Gentile people became known as the Samaritans. https://www.biblestudytools.com/
The Samaritans These people continued to worship the idols from where they were from They did not fear the Lord The Lord sent lions which killed some of them The people told the king they didn t know how to serve God
The Samaritans So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations whom you have removed and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the rituals of the God of the land; therefore He has sent lions among them, and indeed, they are killing them because they do not know the rituals of the God of the land. 2 Kings 17:26
The Samaritans Then the servants of the king of Syria said to him, Their gods are gods of the hills. Therefore they were stronger than we; but if we fight against them in the plain, surely we will be stronger than they. 1 Kings 20:23
The Samaritans The king sent a priest, previously from Israel, to teach them how to serve God (ironic?). He lived in Bethel (ironic?). The people continue to serve their idols BUT mixed in a little fear for the Lord
The Samaritans They feared the Lord, yet served their own gods according to the rituals of the nations from among whom they were carried away. To this day they continue practicing the former rituals; they do not fear the Lord, nor do they follow their statutes or their ordinances, or the law and commandment which the Lord had commanded the children of Jacob, whom He named Israel 2 Kings 17:33-34
The Samaritans The wild lions of Israel, known as Asiatic lions, are believed to have become extinct during the active period of religious crusades around a.d. 1200. In the Middle East regions neighboring the Holy Land, such as Syria, Jordan, and Mesopotamia, the local Asiatic lions disappeared during the 20th century. https://www.explorationjunkie.com/lions-in-israel/
Outline Judah Alone Hezekiah prepares for war (Siloam Tunnel) Sennacherib Invades Judah Rabshakeh Comes To Jerusalem! God responds Rabshakeh Sends Letter To Hezekiah. Hezekiah spreads letter before God God Kills 185,000 Assyrians! Sennacherib s Death
Judah Alone Israel was taken captive in Hezekiah s 6th year (2 Kings 18:10) 721 BC Jerusalem fell to Babylon in 586 BC 135 years after Israel fell Sennacherib Came against Judah in Hezekiah s 14th year (Is 36:1) 8 Years after Israel fell
Hezekiah Prepares For War Siloam Tunnel Built up all the wall that was broken Raised it up to the towers Built another outside wall Repaired the Millo (Landfill, Tower or earth embankment?) Made weapons and shields in abundance Set military captains over the people
Hezekiah Prepares For War - Millo Probably the Canaanite name of some fortification, consisting of walls filled in with earth and stones, which protected Jerusalem on the north as its outermost defence. It is always rendered Akra i.e., "the citadel", in the LXX. It was already existing when David conquered Jerusalem ( 2 Samuel 5:9 ). He extended it to the right and left, thus completing the defence of the city. It was rebuilt by Solomon ( 1 Kings 9:15 1 Kings 9:24 ; 11:27 ) and repaired by Hezekiah ( 2 Chronicles 32:5 ). https://www.biblestudytools.com/
Sennacherib Invades Lachish Assyrian Leadership: Tiglath-Pileser (Pul Shalmaneser V, Pul s son Sargon II, Shalmaneser V s brother Sennacherib, Sargon II s son
Sennacherib Invades Judah Sennacherib encamped against the fortified cities and took them He laid siege against Lachish Hezekiah sent word to Sennacherib I have done wrong; turn away from me; whatever you impose on me I will pay (2 Kings 18:14)
Sennacherib Invades Judah Hezekiah was assessed 300 talents of silver and 30 talents of gold (approx 11 tons of silver and 1 ton of gold)! 6/12/2024 $2323.80 1 Ounce of Gold, $29.25 1 ounce of Silver 2000 x 16 = 32000 ounces = $74,361,600 Gold 11 x 2000 x 16 = 352000 ounces = $10, 296,000 Silver
Sennacherib Invades Judah Hezekiah paid with: All the silver found in the house of the Lord All the silver found in the treasuries of the king s house The gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord The gold from the pillars
Sennacherib Invades Judah Read Isaiah 20
Sennacherib Invades Judah Summary
Sennacherib Invades Judah Sennacherib still wasn t happy Sennacherib sent officers to Jerusalem with a large army (2 Kings 18:17) Tartan Commander in Chief? Rabsaris Chief Officer ? Rabshakeh - Chief of Staff or Governor ?
Sennacherib Invades Judah Sennacherib s message through his officers: Don t trust in the broken reed of Egypt Don t trust in the Lord our God Hezekiah took away His high places and altars Hezekiah only lets you worship in Jerusalem Don t you know what I and my fathers have done to everyone else? None of their gods were able to delivery them! Assumed the Lord was the same as the idols of the other nations Mocked them by saying I d give you 2000 horses if you had riders for them! You can t even repel one captain of the least of my master s servants The Lord said to me Go up against this land, and destroy it
Sennacherib Invades Judah Sennacherib s message through his officers: Furthermore, his servants spoke against the Lord God and against His servant Hezekiah Hezekiah s officers asked Sennacherib s officers to speak in Aramaic instead of Hebrew Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat and drink their own waste with you Apparently they planned a siege against Jerusalem
