2 Kings 17:5
Good News Translation
Then Shalmaneser invaded Israel and besieged Samaria. In the third year of the siege,

New Revised Standard Version
Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria; for three years he besieged it.

Contemporary English Version
Shalmaneser invaded Israel and attacked the city of Samaria for three years,

New American Bible
Then the king of Assyria occupied the whole land and attacked Samaria, which he besieged for three years.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he went through all the land: and going up to Samaria, he besieged it three years.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he went through all the land: and going up to Samaria, he besieged it three years.

A.

3281-3283 B.C.

723-721
the king

2 Kings 18:9 In the fourth year of king Ezechias, which was the seventh year of Osee, the son of Ela, king of Israel, Salmanasar, king of the Assyrians, came up to Samaria, and besieged it,

three years

2 Kings 25:1-3 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem: and they surrounded it: and raised works round about it. . . .

Jeremiah 52:4,5 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and they besieged it, and built forts against it round about. . . .

Context
Israel Exiled Because of Idolatry
5And he went through all the land: and going up to Samaria, he besieged it three years.6And in the ninth year of Osee, the king of the Assyrians took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria: and he placed them in Hala, and Habor, by the river of Gozan, in the cities of the Medes.…
Cross References
2 Kings 17:4
And when the king of the Assyrians found that Osee, endeavouring to rebel, had sent messengers to Sua, the king of Egypt, that he might not pay tribute to the king of the Assyrians, as he had done every year, he besieged him, bound him, and cast him into prison.

Hosea 13:16
Let Samaria perish, because she hath stirred up her God to bitterness: let them perish by the sword, let their little ones be dashed, and let the women with child be ripped up.

2 Kings 17:4
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