Catholic Public Domain Version
"And he wandered through the entire land. And ascending to Samaria, he besieged it for three years. "
— 2 Kings 17:5, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.”
“Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. ”
“Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.”
“The king of Assyria marched through the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years.”
“And he went through all the land: and going up to Samaria, he besieged it three years.”
“Then the king of Assyria went through all the land and came up to Samaria, shutting it in with his forces for three years.”
“Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.”
And he did evil before the Lord, but not like the kings of Israel who had been before him.
Shalmaneser, the king of the Assyrians, ascended against him. And Hoshea became a servant to him, and he paid him tribute.
And when the king of the Assyrians discovered that Hoshea, striving to rebel, had sent messengers to Sais, to the king of Egypt, so as not to present the tribute to the king of the Assyrians, as he had been accustomed to do each year, he besieged him. And having been bound, he cast him into prison.
And he wandered through the entire land. And ascending to Samaria, he besieged it for three years.
And in the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of the Assyrians captured Samaria, and he carried away Israel to Assyria. And he stationed them in Halah and in Habor, beside the river of Gozan, in the cities of the Medes.
For it happened that, when the sons of Israel had sinned against the Lord, their God, who had led them away from the land of Egypt, from the hand of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, they worshipped strange gods.
And they walked according to the rituals of the nations that the Lord had consumed in the sight of the sons of Israel, and of the kings of Israel. For they had acted similarly.