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New Living Translation

2 Kings 17:5

Then the king of Assyria invaded the entire land, and for three years he besieged the city of Samaria.

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.
Literal Translation
And the king of Assyria went up into all the land, and he went up to Samaria and besieged it 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 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 Hoshea son of Elah began to rule over Israel in the twelfth year of King Ahaz's reign in Judah. He reigned in Samaria nine years. 2 He did what was evil in the Lord 's sight, but not to the same extent as the kings of Israel who ruled before him. 3 King Shalmaneser of Assyria attacked King Hoshea, so Hoshea was forced to pay heavy tribute to Assyria. 4 But Hoshea stopped paying the annual tribute and conspired against the king of Assyria by asking King So of Egypt to help him shake free of Assyria's power. When the king of Assyria discovered this treachery, he seized Hoshea and put him in prison. 5 Then the king of Assyria invaded the entire land, and for three years he besieged the city of Samaria. 6 Finally, in the ninth year of King Hoshea's reign, Samaria fell, and the people of Israel were exiled to Assyria. They were settled in colonies in Halah, along the banks of the Habor River in 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
I will make a covenant with you, by which I will guarantee to give you countless descendants."
Genesis 17:4
"This is my covenant with you: I will make you the father of a multitude of nations!
Genesis 17:15
Then God said to Abraham, "Regarding Sarai, your wife—her name will no longer be Sarai. From now on her name will be Sarah.
Genesis 17:21
But my covenant will be confirmed with Isaac, who will be born to you and Sarah about this time next year."
Genesis 17:23
On that very day Abraham took his son, Ishmael, and every male in his household, including those born there and those he had bought. Then he circumcised them, cutting off their foreskins, just as God had told him.
Genesis 32:28
"Your name will no longer be Jacob," the man told him. "From now on you will be called Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have won."
Numbers 13:16
These are the names of the men Moses sent out to explore the land. (Moses called Hoshea son of Nun by the name Joshua.)
2 Samuel 12:25
and sent word through Nathan the prophet that they should name him Jedidiah (which means "beloved of the Lord "), as the Lord had commanded.
Nehemiah 9:7
"You are the Lord God, who chose Abram and brought him from Ur of the Chaldeans and renamed him Abraham.
Isaiah 65:15
Your name will be a curse word among my people, for the Sovereign Lord will destroy you and will call his true 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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