⁷ So Ahaz sent representatives to Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, saying, I am your servant and your son; come to my help against the kings of Aram and Israel who have taken up arms against me.

²⁹ In the days of Pekah, king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came and took Ijon and Abel-beth-maacah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee and all the land of Naphtali; and he took the people away to Assyria.

³ Take with you words, and come back to the Lord; say to him, Let there be forgiveness for all wrongdoing, so that we may take what is good, and give in payment the fruit of our lips.

¹⁷ Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.

⁵ This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.

³ Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

⁴ Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.

⁵ Happy is the man who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

²⁰ Then Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came to him, but was a cause of trouble and not of strength to him.

¹⁶ At that time King Ahaz sent for help to the king of Assyria.

²⁶ And the God of Israel put an impulse into the heart of Pul, king of Assyria, and of Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, who took them away as prisoners, all the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to Halah and Habor and Hara and to the river of Gozan, to this day.

³² So they put on haircloth, and cords on their heads, and came to the king of Israel and said, Your servant Ben-hadad says, Let me now keep my life. And he said, Is he still living? he is my brother.

³³ Now the men took it as a sign, and quickly took up his words; and they said, Ben-hadad is your brother. Then he said, Go and get him. So Ben-hadad came out to him and he made him get up into his carriage.

⁴ And the king of Israel sent him an answer saying, As you say, my lord king, I am yours with all I have.