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2 Kings 17:5

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Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

Then the king {H4428} of Assyria {H804} came up {H5927} throughout all the land {H776}, and went up {H5927} to Samaria {H8111}, and besieged {H6696} it three {H7969} years {H8141}.

Then the king of Ashur invaded all the land, advanced on Shomron and put it under siege for three years.

Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.

Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

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  • Hosea 13:16 (3 votes)

    Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

  • 2 Kings 18:9 (2 votes)

    ¶ And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which [was] the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, [that] Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.

  • 2 Kings 25:1 (2 votes)

    ¶ And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that] Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.

  • 2 Kings 25:3 (2 votes)

    And on the ninth [day] of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

  • Jeremiah 52:4 (2 votes)

    And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that] Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.

  • Jeremiah 52:5 (2 votes)

    So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.