KJV King James Version
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
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2 Kings 17:5
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.
WEB World English Bible
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
ASV American Standard Version
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
YLT 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;
Surrounding context — 2 Kings 17
2 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.
4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as [he had done] year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
7 For [so] it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
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וַיַּ֥עַלH5927 · a.lahto ascend: riseמֶֽלֶךְ־H4428 · me.lekhkingאַשּׁ֖וּרH804 · ash.shurAssyriaבְּכָל־H3605 · kolallהָאָ֑רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetוַיַּ֙עַל֙H5927 · a.lahto ascend: riseשֹׁמְר֔וֹןH8111 · sho.me.ronSamariaוַיָּ֥צַרH6696 · tsurto confineעָלֶ֖יהָH5921 · aluponשָׁלֹ֥שׁH7969 · sha.loshthreeשָׁנִֽים׃H8141 · sha.nehyear
Cross-references
Hosea 13:16Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.2 Kings 25:1-3And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that] Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.Jeremiah 52:4-5And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that] Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.2 Kings 18:9And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which [was] the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, [that] Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
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