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2 Kings 18:10

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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.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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.

KJV

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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This verse in 2 Kings 18

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria

on 2 Kings 18:9-10

The narrator dates the fall of Samaria by Hezekiah's reign, the fourth to the sixth, tying Judah's king to the disaster chapter 17 has recounted. The text gives the span, "at the end of three years," here and at 17:5, and the repetition fixes the number.

This site's exposition

at the end of three years

The siege ran from Hezekiah's fourth year into his sixth. Gill takes the end of three years to mean the opening of the third, the sense he gives the same phrase at Deuteronomy 15:1. Omri had built Samaria as Israel's capital at 1 Kings 16:24.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

Yet is invaded, and his country put under contribution by Sennacherib, ver. 13-16. Jerusalem is besieged, ver. 17. The virulent speech of Rabshakeh, ver. 18-25.

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And at the end of three years they took it,.... That is, at the first end of them, at the beginning, in which sense the phrase is taken in Deu 15:1, even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is, the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken: see 2Ki 17:6.

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַֽיִּלְכְּדֻ֗הָand they captured it

    vaiyilkeduhaH3920 →121 times

  • מִקְצֵה֙from [the] end of

    miktzehH7097 →97 times

  • שָׁלֹ֣שׁthree

    shaloshH7969 →432 times

  • שָׁנִ֔יםyears

    shanimH8141 →877 times

  • בִּשְׁנַת־in year

    bishnat-H8141 →877 times

  • שֵׁ֖שׁsix

    sheshH8337 →216 times

  • לְחִזְקִיָּ֑הof Hezekiah

    lechizkiyahH2396 →127 times

  • הִ֣יאit

    hi'H1931 →1879 times

  • שְׁנַת־[was] year

    shenat-H8141 →877 times

  • תֵּ֗שַׁעnine

    tesha'H8672 →58 times

  • לְהוֹשֵׁ֙עַ֙of Hoshea

    lehoshea'H1954 →16 times

  • מֶ֣לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH4428 →2525 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • נִלְכְּדָ֖הit was captured

    nilkedahH3920 →121 times

  • שֹׁמְרֽוֹן׃Samaria

    shomeronH8111 →109 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

7 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Hosea 13:16Samaria 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.2 worksMicah 1:6–9Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of rubble in the open field, a planting area for a vineyard. I will pour her stones into the valley and expose her foundations.2 worksMicah 6:16You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”2 worksAmos 9:1–4I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.2 worksAmos 6:7Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.2 worksMicah 7:13Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.2 works
The other 1 cross-references, with their words ▾
Amos 3:11Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “An enemy will surround the land; he will pull down your strongholds and plunder your citadels.”2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    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.

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 15:16

      At that time Menahem, starting from Tirzah, attacked Tiphsah and everyone in its vicinity, because they would not open their gates. So he attacked Tiphsah and ripped open all the pregnant women.

    • 2 Kings 8:12

      “Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites,” Elisha replied. “You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword,…

    • Psalms 137:8–9

      O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.

    • Isaiah 13:16

      Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.

  • Through

    Micah 6:16

    You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 51:51

      “We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD’s house.”

    • Isaiah 25:8

      He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.

    • Jeremiah 7:24

      Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.

    • 1 Kings 16:25–33

      But Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD and acted more wickedly than all who were before him.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Kings

Jews Mourning in Exile, Eduard Bendemann, 1832, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum. Public domain.
Jews Mourning in Exile, Eduard Bendemann, 1832, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum. Public domain.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil, The Books of the Kings.

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