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2 Kings 17:5

AssyriaSamaria

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.

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,

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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 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.

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  • 2 Kings 25:1–3

    And 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.

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  • Jeremiah 52:4–5

    And 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.

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  • 2 Kings 18:9

    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.

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