This king has been identified with the last king of Israel, Hoshea, who died around the same time, at the time of the Assyrian exile of the ten tribes from Israel.

The second exile is recorded in the book of Kings II 15, “In the days of King Pekah of Israel, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel- Beth-Maachah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor ...

In 721 BC, Assyria swept out of the North, captured the Northern Kingdom of Israel and took the Ten Tribes into captivity, after which they became lost to history. Assyria, named for the god Ashur ...

Consequently, they were the first of the tribes to go into exile as we see in Divrei HaYamim I 5:26: “And the God of Israel stirred the spirit of King Pul of Assyria and the spirit of King ...

Gavriel Fiske is a reporter at The Times of Israel The Assyrian Empire’s siege of Jerusalem in 701 BCE is mentioned in the Bible, in Assyrian records and later, by ancient historians such as ...

When the Northern Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Assyrians and taken into exile around 722 B.C., Coleman said, the Southern Kingdom of Judah was offered a vivid reminder of what the Lord ...