And at the end of three years, the Assyrians captured it. So Samaria was captured in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel.
Parallel translations
- WEB At the end of three years they took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
- KJV And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
- ESV and at the end of three years he took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
- NKJV And at the end of three years they took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is, the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
- NASB And at the end of three years they captured it; in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was captured.
- NLT Three years later, during the sixth year of King Hezekiah’s reign and the ninth year of King Hoshea’s reign in Israel, Samaria fell.
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Quick answer
After three years Samaria fell, in Hezekiah's sixth year and Hoshea's ninth. The northern kingdom of Israel came to its end.
Overview
The precise dating ties Israel's fall to Judah's history, marking a decisive moment in the divided monarchy. The fall of Samaria fulfilled the prophets' warnings and the curses of the covenant for persistent idolatry. By recording it again here, the narrator sets a sober backdrop for Judah's own coming test under Sennacherib. God's judgment is certain, yet his preservation of Judah shows his ongoing mercy toward David's line.
Cross-references & the web
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- Hos 13:16Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
- Mic 7:13Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.
- Mic 6:16You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”
- Amos 9:1–4I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.
- Amos 6:7Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.
- Amos 3:11Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “An enemy will surround the land; he will pull down your strongholds and plunder your citadels.”
- Mic 1:6–9Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of rubble in the open field, a planting area for a vineyard. I will pour her stones into the valley and expose her foundations.
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