2 Kings 17:3
Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.
2 Kings 17:3 in other translations
| BSB | Shalmaneser king of Assyria attacked him, and Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute. |
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| WEB | Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute. |
| ASV | Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute. |
| YLT | against him came up Shalmaneser king of Asshur, and Hoshea is to him a servant, and doth render to him a present. |
| DARBY | Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria, and Hoshea became his servant, and tendered him presents. |
| BBE | Against him came up Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, and Hoshea became his servant and sent him offerings. |
| Webster | Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents. |
What does 2 Kings 17:3 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Kings 17:1-6
When the measure of sin is filled up, the Lord will forbear no longer. The inhabitants of Samaria must have endured great affliction. Some of the poor Israelites were left in the land. Those who were carried captives to a great distance, were mostly lost among the nations.
2 Kings 17:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Kings 17:3
- Hosea 10:14
Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth–arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.
- Isaiah 10:11-12
Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
- 2 Kings 16:7-8
So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath–pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me. And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.
- 2 Kings 18:9-16
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. And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes: Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them. …
- 2 Kings 19:36-37
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
- 2 Kings 15:19
And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
- 2 Kings 15:29
In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath–pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel–beth–maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
- Isaiah 7:7-8
Thus saith the Lord God, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass. For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
- 2 Samuel 8:6
Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the Lord preserved David whithersoever he went.
- 2 Kings 18:31
Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:
- 2 Samuel 8:2
And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David’s servants, and brought gifts.
- Isaiah 10:5-6
O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
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18:9; Ho 10:14
Shalman. king of Assyria.
15:19,29; 16:7; 18:13; 19:36,37; Isa 7:7,8; 10:5,6,11,12
and Hoshea.
16:8; 18:14-16,31
gave. Heb. rendered. presents. or, tribute.
2Sa 8:2,6
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Context
- 2 Kings 17:2
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
- 2 Kings 17:3
Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.
- 2 Kings 17:4
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.
2 Kings 17:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Contra éste subió Salmanasar rey de los Asirios; y Oseas fué hecho su siervo, y pagábale tributo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Shalmanéser, roi d’Assyrie, monta contre lui, et Osée devint son serviteur, et lui envoya des présents. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wider ihn zog Salmaneser, der König von Assyrien, herauf; und Hosea wurde sein Knecht und entrichtete ihm Geschenke. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Contra hunc ascendit Salmanasar rex Assyriorum, et factus est ei Osee servus, reddebatque illi tributa. |