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The kingוַ מֶלֶךְof Assyriaאַשּׁוּרcame upיַּעַלthrough allבְּכָלthe land,הָאָרֶץwent upוַיַּעַלto Samaria,שֹׁמְרוֹןand besieged itוַיָּצַר עָלֶיהָthreeשָׁלֹשׁyears.שָׁנִים
2 Kings 17:5
Study it in the app“The king of Assyria came up through all the land, went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.”
With the Hebrew beneath
2 Kings 17:5, word by word
- The kingמֶלֶךְmelech
king
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appears- of Assyriaאַשּׁוּרashur
Assyria, Asshur
See it on the mapWhere else “ashur” appears- came upיַּעַלyaal
go up
To go from a low place to a higher one: up the mountain, to Jerusalem or to a city.
Where else “yaal” appears- the landאָרֶץarets
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appears- to Samariaשֹׁמְרוֹןshomron
Samaria
See it on the mapWhere else “shomron” appears- and besieged itיָּצַרyatsar
besiege
To encircle a city, or shut something in.
Where else “yatsar” appears- threeשָׁלֹשׁshalosh
three
A quantity of three: three persons or things together.
Where else “shalosh” appears- yearsשָׁנִיםshanim
year
Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.
Where else “shanim” appears
Places in this verse
1Assyria
Today: northern Iraq (with parts of Syria, Turkey, Iran)
An empire of northern Mesopotamia along the Tigris River, in present-day Iraq.
Assyria took the northern kingdom of Israel captive (2 Kgs 17:6). God sent Jonah to preach in Nineveh, its capital (Jonah 3:3).
2Samaria
Today: northern West Bank (Sebastia, Samaria hills)
A city and region in central Israel, between Judea and Galilee.
Omri founded the city as capital of the northern kingdom (1 Kgs 16:24); the Assyrians conquered it (2 Kgs 17:6). Jesus passed through the region, and Philip preached there (John 4:4; Acts 8:5).
The context
4But the king of Assyria found in Hoshea a conspiracy, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and had not brought up tribute to the king of Assyria as he had done year by year; so the king of Assyria detained him and bound him in prison.
5 · This verse (above)
6In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried Israel into exile to Assyria, and settled them in Halah and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.