At that time did King Ahaz send to the kings of Assyria to help him. ] To Tiglathpileser, and his son, see ( 2 Kings 16:7 ) , and the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, read in the singular, and so the Targum.
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So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation.
15
And the men which were expressed by name rose up and took the captives, and, with the spoil, clothed all that were naked among them and arrayed them and shod them and gave them to eat and to drink and anointed them and carried all the feeble of them upon asses and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren; then they returned to Samaria.
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At that time King Ahaz sent unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
17
For in addition to this, the Edomites had come and smitten Judah and carried away captives.
18
The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country and towards the Negev of Judah and had taken Bethshemesh and Ajalon and Gederoth and Shocho with its villages and Timnah with its villages, Gimzo also and its villages, and they dwelt in them.