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 (c) Medes.
(c) For at this time the Medes and Persians were subject to the Assyrians.
Verse 2 Kings 17:6. _TOOK SAMARIA_] According to the prophets Hosea, Hosea 13:16, and Micah, Micah 1:6. He exercised great cruelties on this miserable city, ripping up the women with child, dashing y...
THE KING OF ASSYRIA TOOK SAMARIA - i. e., from the Assyrian inscriptions, not Shalmaneser but Sargon, who claims to have captured the city in the first year of his reign (721 B.C.). At first Sargon ca...
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...
KING OF ASSYRIA. Shalmaneser. See 2 Kings 17:3. TOOK SAMARIA. Here, in the days of Hoshea (king of Israel); and in 2 Kings 1. as connected with the days of Hezekiah (king of Judah). Compare 2 Kings 1...
_in Halah_ Most likely this is the district which Ptolemy calls Χαλκιτις. It lies directly north from Thapsacus between Anthemusia and Gauzonitis. _and in Habor_ Habor is the river still known as the...
CARRIED ISRAEL AWAY INTO ASSYRIA, &C.— The policy of any prince in transplanting a conquered people in another country, is, to prevent their combining (which they cannot so well do in a strange land,...
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...
_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._ In t...
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 KING OF ASSYRIA] Not Shalmaneser (2 Kings 17:3), who died before Samaria was captured, but his successor, Sargon (723-705). The fall of Samaria took place in 722 b.c. CARRIED ISRAEL AWAY] The numb...
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 ye...
IN THE NINTH YEAR OF HOSHEATHE KING OF ASSYRIA TOOK SAMARIA. — Comp. Hosea 10:5 _seq.;_ Micah 1:6; Isaiah 28:1. In the great inscription published by Botta, Sargon says: “The city of Samaria I assault...
בִּ שְׁנַ֨ת הַ תְּשִׁיעִ֜ית לְ הֹושֵׁ֗עַ לָכַ
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...
_Medes. See chap. xvi. 9. The great maxim and policy of these nations, was to transport the conquered nations to a distant country, in order to prevent any revolts. (Calmet)_...
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 Jehovah...
IN THE NINTH YEAR OF HOSHEA THE KING OF ASSYRIA TOOK SAMARIA,..... Which was the last year of his reign, and to be reckoned either from the time of his reigning in full power and authority, or from hi...
_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._ Ve...
_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...
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel, what was left of the ten tribes after the campaign of Tiglath-pileser, 2 Kings 15:29, AWAY INTO ASSYRIA, AND PLACED TH...
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...
This is added to distinguish this place from the former, which was either in Assyria, or in the mountainous and less inhabited parts of Media. Hither he carried them, partly to replenish his own count...
2 Kings 17:6 ninth H8671 year H8141 Hoshea H1954 king H4428 Assyria H804 took H3920 (H8804) Samaria H8111 carried...
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 submitt...
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...
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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...
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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...
1 Chronicles 5:26; 1 Kings 14:15; 1 Kings 14:16; 2 Kings 18:10;...
Carried Israel away, &c. — There, we have reason to think, after some time, they were so mingled with the nations, that they were lost, and the name of Israel was no more in remembrance. They that for...