King James Version
2 Kings 17:5 in the King James Version says “Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.” — study this verse from 2 Kings chapter 17 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.”
2 Kings 17:5 · KJV
Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents. gave: Heb. rendered presents: or, tribute
And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison . present: or, tribute
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
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.
For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
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“and went up”
H5927to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
“of Assyria”
H804ashshur, the second son of shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e., assyria), its region and its empire
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“and went up”
H5927to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
“and besieged”
H6696to cramp, i.e., confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
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