What does 2 Kings 17:5 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years."
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....
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...
7. ASSYRIA CONQUERS ISRAEL AND THE CAPTIVITY CHAPTER 17 _ 1. Hoshea, Israel's last king (2 Kings 17:1)_ 2. Shalmaneser imprisons Hoshea (2 Kings 17:3) 3. Israel carried into captivity (2 Kings 17:...
REIGN OF HOSHEA AND DESTRUCTION OF SAMARIA. Hoshea has been previously mentioned (2 Kings 15:30). According to the inscription of Tiglath-pileser, Hoshea was put on the throne by the Assyrians. Shalma...
THE KING OF AASYRIA. Shalmaneser (2 Kings 17:3), who commenced the siege, but died before Sargon, his successor, captured Samaria in 611 B.C. THREE YEARS. From 613-611....
_throughout all the land_ It seems to have been the usual plan of invaders to overrun the places more easily conquerable before they assailed the chief stronghold. _besieged it three years_ Samaria fr...
III. THE ASSYRIAN DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL AND THE DEPORTATION OF THE TEN TRIBES 17:1-41 Chapter 17 relates the sad story of how the Northern Kingdom fell to the Assyrian superpower. After narrating the...
_THEN THE KING OF ASSYRIA CAME UP THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND, AND WENT UP TO SAMARIA, AND BESIEGED IT THREE YEARS._ Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land. This was the third and final...
THE FALL OF SAMARIA This chapter relates the reign of Hoshea. He intrigued with Egypt and rebelled against Assyria; and Samaria, in consequence, was taken and its people carried into captivity, their...
THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 17 HOSHEA’S RULE AS THE LAST KING OF *ISRAEL V1 Hoshea, son of Elah, became king of *Israel. He did so in the 12th yea...
THEN (_and_) THE KING OF ASSYRIA CAME UP... AND BESIEGED IT THREE YEARS. — Sargon states that he took Samaria (_Samer_ί_na_) in his _first_ year. Shalmaneser therefore had besieged the city some two y...
וַ יַּ֥עַל מֶֽלֶךְ ־אַשּׁ֖וּר בְּ כָל ־הָ אָ֑רֶץ וַ יַּ֨עַל֙ שֹׁמְרֹ֔ון וַ יָּ֥צַר עָלֶ֖יהָ...
HOSHEA, AND THE FALL OF THE NORTHERN KINGDOM B.C. 734-725 2 Kings 17:1 "As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon: the water." Hosea 10:7 As a matter of convenience, we follow our Engli...
THE CAUSE OF ISRAEL'S WEAKNESS 2 Kings 17:1 This chapter reads like a page from the books of the great white throne. Hoshea, the last king of Israel, did not follow in all the evil deeds of his eight...
While Ahaz occupied the throne of Judah, Hoshea, by the murder of Pekah, succeeded to the throne of Israel. His reign, too, was evil, although he did not descend to the depths of some of those who had...
The Reader will do well, while reading this chapter, to keep in view what the prophets have said concerning the events recorded in those days. The prophets Isaiah and Hosea particularly merit our clos...
But not merely this. "Elisha died and they buried him" (2 Kings 13:20). Was not Elisha gone then? Not so. There was to be even a more glorious witness in his death than in his life. In his life, no do...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 THROUGH 17. Walking in the steps of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, the house of Jehu was no protection to Israel against Hazael. But the compassion of Jehova...
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 B...
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. Ver. 5. _Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land._] Like an overflowing...
_Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land_ And made himself master of it, treating the Israelites as traitors rather than as fair enemies, and punishing them with the sword of justice....
1 Hoshea his wicked reigne. 3 Being subdued by Shalmaneser, hee conspireth against him with So King of Egypt. 5 Samaria for their sinnes, is captiuated. 24 The strange nations, which were transplan...
THE END OF ISRAEL AS A NATION...
HOSHEA REIGNING IN ISRAEL (vv.1-4) Hoshea had conspired against and killed Pekah (ch.15:30), so that Hoshea began to reign over Israel in the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah. He reigned only nin...
1-6 When the measure of sin is filled up, the Lord will forbear no longer. The inhabitants of Samaria must have endured great affliction. Some of the poor Israelites were left in the land. Those who w...
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2 Kings 17:5 king H4428 Assyria H804 went H5927 (H8799) land H776 up H5927 (H8799) Samaria H8111 besieged H6696 (H8799) three H7969 years H8141 the king - 2 Kings 18:9 three years - 2 Kings 25:1-3;...
THE REIGN OF HOSHEA KING OF ISRAEL C. 732/1-723/2 BC AND THE LAST DAYS OF ISRAEL (2 KINGS 17:1). The history here is very much telescoped. Hoshea had assassinated Pekah and he immediately then submit...
CONTENTS: Reign of Hoshea in Israel. Israel becomes tributary to Assyrians. The sins of Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Hoshea, Shalmaneser, So. CONCLUSION: Those who forget God may themselves expect to be...
2 Kings 17:1. _The twelfth year of Ahaz._ Hoshea did not get confirmed in the kingdom of nine years, for in 2 Kings 15:30 it is said that he began to reign the twentieth year of Jotham. Either there i...
_In the twelfth year of Ahaz King of Judah began Hoshea._ ASPECTS OF A CORRUPT NATION Hoshea, the king here mentioned, was the nineteenth and last king of Israel. He lived about 720 years or more b....
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 17:1 The End of Israel. The authors describe the uprooting and scattering of Israel, which was prophesied long before (1 Kings 14:15) but was delayed because of God’s promises...
THE EXTINCTION OF THE ISRAELITISH KINGDOM CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 17:2. DID EVIL … BUT NOT AS THE KINGS OF ISRAEL—Scripture merely records the fact, does not explain wherein Hoshea...
EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 17:1 THE REIGN OF HOSHEA OVER ISRAEL. DESTRUCTION OF THE ISRAELITE KINGDOM, AND THE GROUNDS OF IT RE-PEOPLING OF THE KINGDOM BY ASSYRIAN COLONISTS. 2 KINGS 17:1 REIGN OF HOSHEA....
Kings, chapter seventeen. In the seventeenth chapter, we come to the death of the northern kingdom, the nation of Israel. In the twelfth year when Ahaz was the king in Judah (2 Kings 17:1), That's t...
2 Kings 18:9; 2 Kings 25:1; Jeremiah 52:4; Jeremiah 52:5...