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2 Kings 17:3-5
New Catholic Bible
2 Kings 17:3-5
New Catholic Bible
3 Shalmaneser, the king of Assyria, attacked him, and Hoshea became his vassal and gave him tribute. 4 The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was involved in a conspiracy, for he had sent messengers to the king of Egypt, and he had not given tribute to the king of Assyria as he had in previous years. The king of Assyria therefore shut him up, throwing him in prison. 5 [a]The king of Assyria occupied the entire land, and he went up to Samaria and besieged it for three years.
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- 2 Kings 17:5 The capital falls (721 B.C.) after a three-year siege. The northern kingdom now vanishes, and a page of Israel’s history is turned, with no hope of going back. The simple record of the event in verses 5-6 is followed by a spiritual comment, the result of long meditation, which recalls countless pages of the prophetic literature. Another account of the tragic events in the north is given in 2 Ki 18:9-12.
