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2 Kings 17:6 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" 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. "
2 Kings 17:6
Verse in Context
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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.
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
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.
For 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,
And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
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2 Kings 17:1
"In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years."
2 Kings 17:2
"And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him."
2 Kings 17:3
"Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents."
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."
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