2 Raja-raja 17:3-7

17:3 King Shalmaneser of Assyria threatened ¹  him; Hoshea became his subject and paid him tribute. 17:4 The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt. ²  Hoshea had sent messengers to King So ³  of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him. ⁴  17:5 The king of Assyria marched through ⁵  the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years. 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel ⁶  to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.

A Summary of Israel’s Sinful History

17:7 This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of ⁷  Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped ⁸  other gods;

[17:3]  ¹ tn Heb “went up against.”

[17:4]  ² tn Heb “and the king of Assyria found in Hoshea conspiracy.”

[17:4]  ³ sn For discussion of this name, see HALOT 744 s.v. סוֹא and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 196.

[17:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “and bound him in the house of confinement.”

[17:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “went up against.”

[17:6]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.

[17:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “and from under the hand of.” The words “freed them” are added in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[17:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “feared.”