2 Kings 17:5

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

2 Kings 17:5

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Berean Standard Bible

Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.

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KJV

King James Version

¶ Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

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WEB

World English Bible

Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

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ASV

American Standard Version

Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

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2 Kings 17

³ Shalmaneser king of Assyria attacked him, and Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.

⁴ But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea had conspired to send envoys to King So of Egypt, and that he had not paid tribute to the king of Assyria as in previous years. Therefore the king of Assyria arrested Hoshea and put him in prison.

⁵ Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.

⁶ In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.

⁷ All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods

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