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2 Kings 17:5

AssyriaSamaria

3 Shalmaneser king of Assyria attacked him, and Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.

4 But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea had conspired to send envoys to King So of Egypt, and that he had not paid tribute to the king of Assyria as in previous years. Therefore the king of Assyria arrested Hoshea and put him in prison.

Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.

6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.

7 All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods

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BSB
Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.
KJV
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
WEB
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
ASV
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
DARBY
And the king of Assyria overran the whole land, and went up against Samaria, and besieged it three years.
BLB
And the king of Assyria went throughout all the land, and he went up to Samaria and besieged it three years.
ÅB
For kongen i Assyria dro opp over hele landet, og han rykket fram mot Samaria og holdt det kringsatt i tre år.
OTB
Da invaderte kongen av Assyria hele landet og dro opp til Samaria og beleiret det i tre år.
B1930
For kongen i Assyria drog op over hele landet, og han rykket frem mot Samaria og holdt det kringsatt i tre år.

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  • Hosea 13:16

    Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

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  • 2 Kings 25:1–3

    So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.

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  • Jeremiah 52:4–5

    So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.

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  • 2 Kings 18:9

    In the fourth year of Hezekiah’s reign, which was the seventh year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it.

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