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2 Kings 17:5 Explained in Context
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Verse 5. 5Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
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Quick Meaning
This verse advances the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence: “Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Hoshea's rebellion ends in Samaria's fall.”
Read It With
- 2 Kings 17:1–6
Read 2 Kings 17:5 with 17:1–6. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Hoshea rules under Assyria, withholds tribute while seeking Egypt, is imprisoned, and Samaria falls after a three-year siege as Israelites are deported.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “Hoshea's rebellion ends in Samaria's fall,” 2 Kings 17:5 advances the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence through the wording “Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged….” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: The final northern coups, territorial losses, and Assyrian dependence culminate in Hoshea's rebellion, Samaria's siege, and deportation.
Read 2 Kings 17:1–6 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Kings 17:1–6 forms one scene or regnal notice: Hoshea rules under Assyria, withholds tribute while seeking Egypt, is imprisoned, and Samaria falls after a three-year siege as Israelites are deported.
Verse 1. 1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.
Verse 2. 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.
Verse 3. 3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.
Verse 4. 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.
Verse 5. 5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
Verse 6. 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.
What Remains True
Power remains accountable for every person exposed, coerced, displaced, injured, or killed even when the narrative also reports judgment, fulfillment, or victory. This unit tests that truth through the narrated movement: Hoshea rules under Assyria, withholds tribute while seeking Egypt, is imprisoned, and Samaria falls after a three-year siege as Israelites are deported. In 2 Kings 17:5, the concrete line “Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged…” keeps that truth accountable to narrated evidence.
How It Can Shape Life
- The evidence to keep visible in this verse is “Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged….” Separate description, actor justification, narrator evaluation, and fulfillment; document who chose the violence, who bore its cost, and which safeguards prevent imitation. This response follows from the unit's own sequence: Hoshea rules under Assyria, withholds tribute while seeking Egypt, is imprisoned, and Samaria falls after a three-year siege as Israelites are deported.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Kings 17:1–6, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Kings
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, royal formulas, clause relationships, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Kgs.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 17:1–6
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: 2 Kings with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: A unit-bounded translation comparison plus only the lexical, grammatical, textual, historical, or older-English notes actually printed for these verses; silence is not treated as evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible 2 Kings PDF, printed pp. 652–655, translation and translator notes for 17:1–6
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