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2 Kings 17:4-6

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17:4 The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt.¹ Hoshea had sent messengers to King So² of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him.³ 17:5 The king of Assyria marched through⁴ the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years. 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel⁵ to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.

¹tn Heb “and the king of Assyria found in Hoshea conspiracy.”

²sn For discussion of this name, see HALOT 744 s.v. סוֹא and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 196.

³tn Heb “and bound him in the house of confinement.”

⁴tn Heb “went up against.”

⁵tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.

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