⁷ So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.

¹³ When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.

¹¹ Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

⁹ For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.