KJV King James Version
And at the end of three years they took it: [even] in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that [is] the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
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2 Kings 18:10
And at the end of three years they took it: [even] in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that [is] the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And at the end of three years, the Assyrians captured it. So Samaria was captured in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel.
WEB World English Bible
At the end of three years they took it: in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
ASV American Standard Version
And at the end of three years they took it: in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and they capture it at the end of three years; in the sixth year of Hezekiah—it is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel—hath Samaria been captureth,
Surrounding context — 2 Kings 18
7 And the LORD was with him; [and] he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.
8 He smote the Philistines, [even] unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
9 And 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.
10 And at the end of three years they took it: [even] in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that [is] the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
11 And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:
12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, [and] all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear [them], nor do [them].
13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
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וַֽיִּלְכְּדֻ֗הָH3920 · la.khadto captureמִקְצֵה֙H7097 · qa.tsehendשָׁלֹ֣שׁH7969 · sha.loshthreeשָׁנִ֔יםH8141 · sha.nehyearבִּשְׁנַת־H8141 · sha.nehyearשֵׁ֖שׁH8337 · sheshsixלְחִזְקִיָּ֑הH2396 · chiz.qiy.yahHezekiahהִ֣יאH1931 · huhe/she/itשְׁנַת־H8141 · sha.nehyearתֵּ֗שַׁעH8672 · te.sahnineלְהוֹשֵׁ֙עַ֙H1954 · ho.she.aHosheaמֶ֣לֶךְH4428 · me.lekhkingיִשְׂרָאֵ֔לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelנִלְכְּדָ֖הH3920 · la.khadto captureשֹׁמְרֽוֹן׃H8111 · sho.me.ronSamaria
Cross-references
Amos 3:11Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary [there shall be] even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.Amos 9:1-4I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.Micah 7:13Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.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.Micah 1:6-9Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, [and] as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.Amos 6:7Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.Micah 6:16For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
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