2 Kings 17:6

Translations

Modern

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.

Traditional

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.

Literal

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried away Israel to Assyria and settled them in Halah, and by the Habor River in Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

Latin

Anno autem nono Osee, cepit rex Assyriorum Samariam, et transtulit Israël in Assyrios: posuitque eos in Hala et in Habor juxta fluvium Gozan, in civitatibus Medorum.

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English

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.

Notes

2 Kings 17:5–6

the king of Assyria: Historical records say Shalmaneser V of Assyria, the ruler from 726 to 722 BC, conquered Samaria, but Sargon II (who ruled Assyria from 721 to 705 BC) claimed he captured the city. Sargon might have been the commander when Samaria fell and then became king after Shalmaneser's death during the siege.
invaded the whole land: The Assyrians would destroy the area around an enemy's main city before attacking it.
The ninth year of King Hoshea’s reign was 722 BC.
carried away the Israelites: The Assyrians deported people to prevent future rebellions. Sargon also brought other people to Israel to create a mixed population (see 2 Kings 17:24–25).
Halah was northeast of Nineveh in Assyria.
The Habor River is a branch of the Euphrates River in northwestern Assyria.
Gozan was on the Habor River northeast of Haran (see Genesis 12:4). Assyrian records from the area include names that are clearly Israelite, possibly showing the deportation of Samaria's people.

2 Kings 17:1–23

The report of the northern kingdom's fall has two main parts:

Events during the reign of Israel's last king, Hoshea, including the capture of Samaria and the deportation of Israel's people (2 Kings 17:1–6);
The reasons for Israel's fall and Assyria's conquest:
- Israel's many sins (2 Kings 17:7–17) that led to God's judgment (2 Kings 17:18–20), and
- the major sin of Jeroboam I, who started Israel's widespread disobedience to God (2 Kings 17:21–23).

Theme notes and profiles

Assyria Jeroboam I Apostasy Canaanite Religion God’s Anger Invasion Making Sense of the Exile Oppression of God’s People Promised Land Purity and Identity Remember Him The Collapse of Culture The Land The Sovereignty of God

Related verses

Hosea 13:16
Samaria 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.
Deuteronomy 28:64
Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
1 Chronicles 5:26
So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria (that is, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria) to take the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh into exile. And he brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river of Gozan, where they remain to this day.
Deuteronomy 28:36
The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.
Isaiah 13:17
Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.
Amos 5:27
Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.
Deuteronomy 29:27–28
Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against this land, and He brought upon it every curse written in this book.
Leviticus 26:32–33
And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.
Isaiah 21:2
A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”
2 Kings 18:10–11
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.
Deuteronomy 4:25–28
After you have children and grandchildren and you have been in the land a long time, if you then act corruptly and make an idol of any form—doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God and provoking Him to anger—
1 Kings 14:15–16
For the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger.

People

Hoshea: The last king of Israel (northern kingdom) Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes

Places

Assyria: A powerful ancient empire, often in conflict with Israel Gozan: A region in Mesopotamia where Israelite captives were deported Habor: A river in Assyria where Israelite captives were settled Halah: A place where Israelites were exiled by the Assyrians Media: An ancient kingdom; part of the Persian Empire Samaria: Capital city of the northern kingdom of Israel; Samaritan inhabitants

Glossary

Abron Assyria, Assyrians Babylon, Babylonia Book of Micah Dan (Place) Dispersion of the Jews, Diaspora Ecbatana Ezekiel, Book of Habor Halah Hara Hoshea Jeroboam Kings, Books of First and Second Medes, Media, Median Samaritans Sargon Tiglath-Pileser Tribe of Dan

Topics

Ancient Samaria: Inhabitants of, Carried Captive to Assyria Ancient Samaria: Samaria the Capital of Besieged and Taken by Shalmaneser Assyria: Israelites Carried Captive Into Assyria: Shalmaneser Assyria: Shalmaneser King of Carried Israel Captive Babylon: Empire of Samaria Captivity of the Ten Tribes Colonization of Conquered Countries and People Gozan: Israelites Taken in Captivity To, by the King of Assyria, After the Conquest of Samaria Habor: A River of Mesopotamia Halah: A Place to Which Israelite Captives Were Transported Hoshea: King of Israel: Last King of Israel Idolatry: Captivity of Israel on Account of Judgments: Delivered: Into the Hands of the Assyrians Kings: Who Reigned Over Israel: Hoshea Medes: Israelites Distributed Among, when Carried to Assyria Rivers: Gozan Samaria: City of, Built by Omri: Besieged by Shalmaneser, King of Assyria, for Three Years Shalmaneser: Overthrows the Kingdom of Israel

2 Kings 17:6

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