3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people,and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation;
that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent:they are confederate against thee:
6 the tabernacles of Edom, and the Ish'maelites; of Moab, and the Hag'arenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Am'alek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assur also is joined with them: they have helped the children of Lot
Daniel 11 excerpt:
40 ¶ And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.
Use the map in your Bible to understand this.
King of the North is likely another way of referring to “The Assyrian.” From the Israelite perspective, what comes from Mesopotamia comes from the north.