^19 (A)Pul^[a] the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave ^(B)Pul a thousand talents^[b] of silver, that he might help him ^(C)to confirm his hold on the royal power.

²⁶ So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of ^(A)Pul king of Assyria, the spirit of ^(B)Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and he took them into exile, namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them ^(C)to Halah, ^(D)Habor, Hara, and ^(E)the river Gozan, to this day.