2 Kings 17:5
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New International Version (©2011)
The king of Assyria invaded the entire land, marched against Samaria and laid siege to it for three years.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then the king of Assyria invaded the entire land, and for three years he besieged the city of Samaria.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria, and for three years he besieged it.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land and went up to Samaria and besieged it three years.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.

International Standard Version (©2012)
After this, the king of Assyria invaded the entire land, approached Samaria, and began a three year siege.

NET Bible (©2006)
The king of Assyria marched through the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then the king of Assyria attacked the entire country. He attacked Samaria and blockaded it for three years.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

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

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he went through all the land: and going up to Samaria, he besieged it three years.

Darby Bible Translation
And the king of Assyria overran the whole land, and went up against Samaria, and besieged it three years.

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

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

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

Young's Literal Translation
And the king of Asshur goeth up into all the land, and he goeth up to Samaria, and layeth siege against it three years;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 5. - Then the King of Assyria - rather, and the King of Assyria - came up throughout all the land - i.e., with an army that spread itself at once over the whole land, that came to conquer, not merely to strike a blow, and obtain submission, as on the former occasion (see ver. 3, and the comment) - and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. From some time in Hoshea's seventh year (2 Kings 18:9) to some time in his ninth (2 Kings 18:10). According to the Hebrew mode of reckoning, parts of years are counted as years; and thus the siege need not have lasted much over a year, though it may have been extended to nearly three years. In either case, there was ample time for Shabak to have brought up his forces, had he been so minded; and his failure to do so, or in any way to succor his ally, showed how little reliance was to be placed on Egyptian promises (comp. 2 Kings 18:21).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land,.... Of Israel, there being none to oppose his march; Hoshea not daring to come out, and meet him and fight him:

and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years; so long the city held out against him, see 2 Kings 18:9.

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Israel Exiled Because of Idolatry
5Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. 6In 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. 7For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, …

2 Kings 17:4 But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was a traitor, for he had sent envoys to So king of Egypt, and he no longer paid tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore Shalmaneser seized him and put him in prison.
Hosea 13:16 The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open."