2 Nephi 24:25

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25 That I will bring the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot; then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.

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Bring the Assyrians in my land (Isa. 14:25; 36)

The Lord has not only determined to destroy Babylon in due time, but he has already programmed the means by which a more immediate threat to Israel will be eliminated. This was the Assyrian Empire, which preceded Babylon and was the terror of the world in Isaiah’s day. In this verse the King James Version says the Lord will “break” the Assyrians, but in the brass plates it says the Lord will “BRING” the Assyrians into the promised land (2 Ne. 24:25). This makes the rest of the verse more sensible. For it says these Assyrians will pour into the mountains of Israel and tread them under foot (conquer them). It turned out that the Assyrians did not storm the mountains of Judah but only the mountains of Ephraim, where the Ten Tribes were located. These were trodden under foot from around 735 to 721 B.C., when the surviving remnants were carried off to Assyria. There they remained as virtual captives or hostages until Babylon came along in 605 B.C. and virtually annihilated the Assyrian people as a nation. This allowed the Ten Tribes to escape from their Assyrian captors and flee northward over the Caucasus Mountains, where they disappeared and became known as the lost tribes.

W. Cleon Skousen, Isaiah Speaks to Modern Times [salt Lake City: Ensign Publishing co., 1984], 284