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2 Kings 18:9

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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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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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.

KJV

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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This verse in 2 Kings 18

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
These verses repeat the account given in the marginal reference. The extreme importance of the event may account for the double insertion.

This site's exposition

Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up

on 2 Kings 18:9-10

The narrator dates the fall of Samaria against Hezekiah's own reign, the fourth year through the sixth, tying Judah's new king to the disaster chapter 17 has just finished recounting at length. Three years of siege is the span the text gives twice, here and at 17:5, and the repetition fixes the number rather than leaving it to memory. Assyrian royal inscriptions credit Sargon II, who came to the throne as the siege closed, with the city's actual fall, a detail this chapter does not need to settle because its own interest is the covenant charge that follows in verse 12.

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 it came to pass in the fourth year of King Hezekiah,.... In the beginning of it: which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel: the beginning of his seventh: that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it; see 2Ki 17:5.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

In the fourth year - This history has been already given, 2Ki 17:3, etc.

The words behind it

21 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.

  • וַֽיְהִ֞יand it was

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • בַּשָּׁנָ֤הin the year

    bashanahH8141 →877 times

  • הָֽרְבִיעִית֙<the> fourth

    hareviitH7243 →56 times

  • לַמֶּ֣לֶךְof the king

    lamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • חִזְקִיָּ֔הוּHezekiah

    chizkiyahuH2396 →127 times

  • הִ֚יאit

    hi'H1931 →1879 times

  • הַשָּׁנָ֣ה[was] the year

    hashanahH8141 →877 times

  • הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔ית<the> seventh

    hasheviitH7637 →98 times

  • לְהוֹשֵׁ֥עַof Hoshea

    lehoshea'H1954 →16 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • אֵלָ֖הElah

    ʾelahH425 →16 times

  • מֶ֣לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH4428 →2525 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • עָלָ֞הhe came up

    ʾalahH5927 →890 times

  • שַׁלְמַנְאֶ֧סֶרShalmaneser

    shalmaneserH8022 →

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H4428 →2525 times

  • אַשּׁ֛וּרAssyria

    ʾashurH804 →151 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • שֹׁמְר֖וֹןSamaria

    shomeronH8111 →109 times

  • וַיָּ֥צַרand he laid siege

    vaiyatzarH6696 →38 times

  • עָלֶֽיהָ׃on it

    ʾaleihaH5921 →5755 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 10:14the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be demolished as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces along with their children.3 works2 Kings 18:1In the third year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz became king of Judah.2 works2 Kings 17:3–23Shalmaneser king of Assyria attacked him, and Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.2 works2 Chronicles 32:4Many people assembled and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land. “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?” they said.2 works2 Kings 17:20So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence.2 works2 Kings 17:5Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.2 works
The other 1 cross-references, with their words ▾
2 Kings 6:24Some time later, Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army and marched up to besiege Samaria.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 10:14

    the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be demolished as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces along with…

    it leads to

    • 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.

    • 2 Kings 18:9–10

      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.

    • Habakkuk 1:10

      They scoff at kings and make rulers an object of scorn. They laugh at every fortress and build up siege ramps to seize it.

    • 2 Kings 19:11–13

      Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Will you then be spared?

  • Through

    2 Kings 18:1

    In the third year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz became king of Judah.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 28:27

      And Ahaz rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of Jerusalem, but he was not placed in the tombs of the kings of Israel. And his son Hezekiah reigned in his…

    • 1 Chronicles 3:13

      Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,

    • Matthew 1:9–10

      Uzziah was the father of Jotham, Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah.

    • 2 Kings 16:20

      And Ahaz rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David, and his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Kings

Elijah Ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Elijah Ascends to Heaven in a Chariot of Fire, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
2 Kings: the study guide →Read 2 Kings 18 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); 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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