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.
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.
- BSB 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.
- 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.
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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; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.”
- Mic 7:13Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
- Mic 6:16For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of Ahab’s house. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people.”
- Amos 9:1–4I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, “Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.
- Amos 6:7Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive; and the feasting and lounging will end.
- Amos 3:11Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “An adversary will overrun the land; and he will pull down your strongholds, and your fortresses will be plundered.”
- Mic 1:6–9Therefore I will make Samaria like a rubble heap of the field, like places for planting vineyards; and I will pour down its stones into the valley, and I will uncover its foundations.
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