World English Bible
"Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years."
— 2 Kings 17:5, World English Bible
“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.”
He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him.
Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute.
The king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute 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 to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
It was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who 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 nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.