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Green's Literal Translation

2 Kings 17:5

And the king of Assyria went up into all the land, and he went up to Samaria and besieged it three years.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Assyria;   Babylon;   Samaria;   Shalmaneser;   Siege;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Thompson Chain Reference - Samaria;   Sieges;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Assyria;   Kings;   Samaria, Ancient;   Sieges;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Egypt;   Hoshea;   Samaria;   Shalmaneser;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Assyria;   Egypt;   Hoshea;   Israel;   Judah, tribe and kingdom;   Palestine;   Samaria, samaritans;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Samaritans;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Assyria;   Captivity;   Hoshea;   Israel, Kingdom of;   Shalman;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Captivity;   Fenced Cities;   Hoshea (2);   Samaria;   Sargon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Assyria, History and Religion of;   Exile;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Samaria, Samaritans;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Samaria;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Assyria ;   Hoshea ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Shalmanezer;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Captivity;   Hezekiah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Captivities of the Jews;   Shalmane'ser;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Captivity;   Dispersion, the;   Hoshea;   Isaiah;   Samaria, City of;   Siege;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Assyria;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Shalmaneser;   Shechem;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.
Hebrew Names Version
Then the king of Ashshur came up throughout all the land, and went up to Shomron, and besieged it three years.
King James Version
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
English Standard Version
Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria, and for three years he besieged it.
New Century Version
Then the king of Assyria came and attacked all the land of Israel. He surrounded Samaria and attacked it for three years.
New English Translation
The king of Assyria marched through the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years.
Amplified Bible
Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land [of Israel] and went up to Samaria and besieged it for three years.
New American Standard Bible
Then the king of Assyria invaded the entire land, and went up to Samaria and besieged it for three years.
World English Bible
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the king of Asshur came vp throughout all the lande, and went against Samaria, and besieged it three yeere.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then the king of Assyria went up against the whole land and he went up to Samaria and besieged it three years.
Berean Standard Bible
Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.
Contemporary English Version
Shalmaneser invaded Israel and attacked the city of Samaria for three years,
Complete Jewish Bible
Then the king of Ashur invaded all the land, advanced on Shomron and put it under siege for three years.
Darby Translation
And the king of Assyria overran the whole land, and went up against Samaria, and besieged it three years.
Easy-to-Read Version
The king of Assyria attacked many places in Israel. Then he came to Samaria and fought against it for three years.
George Lamsa Translation
Then the king of Assyria came up against the whole land, and went up to Samaria and besieged it three years.
Good News Translation
Then Shalmaneser invaded Israel and besieged Samaria. In the third year of the siege,
Lexham English Bible
So the king of Assyria went up in all the land, then he went up to Samaria and besieged it for three years.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the kynge of Assiria wente vp in to all the londe and to Samaria, and layed sege vnto it thre yeare.
American Standard Version
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
Bible in Basic English
Then the king of Assyria went through all the land and came up to Samaria, shutting it in with his forces for three years.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And then the king of Assyria came vp throughout all the lande, and gat vp against Samaria, and besieged it three yeres.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
King James Version (1611)
Then the king of Assyria came vp thorowout all the land, and went vp to Samaria, and besieged it three yeres.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the king of the Assyrians went up against all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.
English Revised Version
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he yede thoruy al the lond, and he stiede to Samarie, and bisegide it bi thre yeer.
Young's Literal Translation
And the king of Asshur goeth up into all the land, and he goeth up to Samaria, and layeth siege against it three years;
Update Bible Version
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
New King James Version
Now the king of Assyria went throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria and besieged it for three years.
New Living Translation
Then the king of Assyria invaded the entire land, and for three years he besieged the city of Samaria.
New Life Bible
Then the king of Assyria came against all the land. He went up to Samaria and kept soldiers around it for three years.
New Revised Standard
Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria; for three years he besieged it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, - yea he came up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he went through all the land: and going up to Samaria, he besieged it three years.
Revised Standard Version
Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Sama'ria, and for three years he besieged it.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land and went up to Samaria and besieged it three years.

Contextual Overview

1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz the king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah reigned in Samaria, nine years over Israel. 2 And he did the evil in the eyes of Jehovah, only not as the kings of Israel who were before him. 3 Shalmaneser the king of Assyria came against him, and Hoshea was a servant to him, and paid him tribute. 4 And the king of Assyria found a conspiracy in Hoshea, in that he had sent messengers to So the king of Egypt, and had not offered tribute up to the king of Assyria, as year by year. And the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in a prison. 5 And the king of Assyria went up into all the land, and he went up to Samaria and besieged it three years. 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and removed Israel to Assyria, and made them live in Halah, and in Habor, by the river Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3281-3283, bc 723-721

the king: 2 Kings 18:9

three years: 2 Kings 25:1-3, Jeremiah 52:4, Jeremiah 52:5

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 20:1 - besieged 2 Kings 6:24 - gathered 2 Kings 19:4 - the remnant 2 Kings 19:11 - General 2 Kings 24:1 - his days 2 Chronicles 28:20 - distressed him 2 Chronicles 32:13 - I and my Ezra 9:7 - into the hand Isaiah 7:8 - within Isaiah 8:4 - the riches of Damascus Isaiah 9:1 - afterward Isaiah 10:9 - Samaria Isaiah 36:19 - and have

Cross-References

Genesis 17:2
and I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you very much.
Genesis 17:4
As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.
Genesis 17:15
And God said to Abraham, You shall not call your wife Sarai by her name Sarai, for Sarah shall be her name;
Genesis 17:21
And I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year.
Genesis 17:23
And Abraham took his son Ishmael, and all the ones born of his house, and all that were bought with his silver, every male among the men of the house of Abraham. And he circumcised the flesh of theirforeskins in that same day, even as Godspoke to him.
Genesis 32:28
And He said, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, because you have wrestled with God and with men, and have prevailed.
Numbers 13:16
These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun, Joshua.
2 Samuel 12:25
and sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and called his name Jedidiah, because of Jehovah.
Nehemiah 9:7
You are Jehovah the God who chose Abram, and brought him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and appointed his name, Abraham.
Isaiah 65:15
And you shall leave your name for a curse to My elect. And the Lord Jehovah shall kill you; and He shall call His servants by another name.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land,.... Of Israel, there being none to oppose his march; Hoshea not daring to come out, and meet him and fight him:

and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years; so long the city held out against him, see 2 Kings 18:9.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

All the land - The second invasion of Shalmaneser (723 B.C., his fifth year), is here contrasted with the first, as extending to the whole country, whereas the first had afflicted only a part.

Three years - From the fourth to the sixth of Hezekiah, and from the seventh to the ninth of Heshea; two years, therefore, according to our reckoning, but three, according to that of the Hebrews. This was a long time for so small a place to resist the Assyrians but Samaria was favorably situated on a steep hill; probably Sabaco made some attempts to relieve his vassal; the war with Tyre must have distracted Shalmaneser; and there is reason to believe that before the capture was effected a revolt had broken out at Nineveh which must have claimed Shalmaneser’s chief attention, though it did not induce him to abandon his enterprise.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 17:5. Besieged it three years. — It must have been well fortified, well provisioned, and well defended, to have held out so long.


 
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