2 Kings 17 · Verse 5

2 Kings 17:5

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, King James Version

2 Kings 17:5 in other translations

BSBThen the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.
WEBThen the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
ASVThen the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
YLTAnd the king of Asshur goeth up into all the land, and he goeth up to Samaria, and layeth siege against it three years;
DARBYAnd the king of Assyria overran the whole land, and went up against Samaria, and besieged it three years.
BBEThen the king of Assyria went through all the land and came up to Samaria, shutting it in with his forces for three years.
WebsterThen the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

What does 2 Kings 17:5 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 5 Besieged it three years - It must have been well fortified, well provisioned, and well defended, to have held out so long.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

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.

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2 Kings 17:5 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיַּ֥עַלvai.Ya.'aland he came upH5927
מֶֽלֶךְ\־Me.lekh-[the] king ofH4428
אַשּׁ֖וּר'a.ShurAssyriaH804
בְּכָל\־be.kholin allH3605
הָאָ֑רֶץha.'A.retzthe landH776
וַיַּ֙עַל֙vai.Ya.'aland he came upH5927
שֹׁמְר֔וֹןsho.me.RonSamariaH8111
וַיָּ֥צַרvai.Ya.tzarand he laid siegeH6696
עָלֶ֖יהָ'a.Lei.haon itH5921
שָׁלֹ֥שׁsha.LoshthreeH7969
שָׁנִֽים\׃sha.NimyearsH8141

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 2 Kings 17:5

  • Hosea 13:16

    Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

  • 2 Kings 25:1-3

    And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about. And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

  • Jeremiah 52:4-5

    And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about. So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

  • 2 Kings 18:9

    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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A.M. 3281-3283. B.C. 723-721. the king.
18:9
three years.
25:1-3; Jer 52:4,5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • 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 17:5

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

  • 2 Kings 17:6

    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.

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2 Kings 17:5 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y el rey de Asiria partió contra todo el país, y subió contra Samaria, y estuvo sobre ella tres años.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et le roi d’Assyrie monta par tout le pays, et monta à Samarie, et l’assiégea trois ans.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und der König von Assyrien zog herauf in das ganze Land, und zog herauf nach Samaria und belagerte es drei Jahre lang.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Pervagatusque est omnem terram: et ascendens Samariam, obsedit eam tribus annis.