a king · noun, common masculine singular construct
Assyria
אַשּׁ֛וּר'a.Shur
H804
Ashshur · proper noun, a place name
away
וַיֶּ֧גֶלvai.Ye.gel
H1540
to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense) · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Israel
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לYis.ra.'El
H3478
Jisrael · proper noun, a place name
Assyria
אַשּׁ֑וּרָה'a.Shu.rah
H804
Ashshur · proper noun, a place name + directional suffix
put
וַיַּנְחֵ֞םvai.yan.Chem
H5148
to guide · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
Halah
בַּחְלַ֧חbach.Lach
H2477
Chalach · preposition + proper noun, a place name
Habor
וּבְחָב֛וֹרu.ve.cha.Vor
H2249
Chabor · conjunction + preposition + proper noun, a place name
river
נְהַ֥רne.Har
H5104
a stream (including the sea · noun, common masculine singular construct
Gozan
גּוֹזָ֖ןgo.Zan
H1470
Gozan · proper noun, a place name
cities
וְעָרֵ֥יve.'a.Rei
H5892
a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the wi… · conjunction + noun, common masculine plural construct
Medes
מָדָֽיma.Dai
H4074
Madai · proper noun, a place name
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
1 Chronicles 5:26 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them…
2 Kings 17:6 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…
Isaiah 37:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which…
2 Kings 19:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
Isaiah 7:8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it…
Isaiah 8:4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken a…
Isaiah 9:9-21 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
Isaiah 10:5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 18:9-16
The kingdom of Assyria had now grown considerable, though we never read of it till the last reign. Such changes there are in the affairs of nations and families: those that have been despicable become formidable, and those, on the contrary, are brought low that have made a great noise and figure. We have here an account,
I. Of the success of Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, against Israel, his besieging Samaria (Kg2 18:9), taking it (Kg2 18:10), and carrying the people into captivity (Kg2 18:11), with the reason why God brought this judgment upon them (Kg2 18:12): Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God. This was related more largely in the foregoing chapter, but it is here repe…
he rebelled against the king of Assyria--that is, the yearly tribute his father had stipulated to pay, he, with imprudent haste, withdrew. Pursuing the policy of a truly theocratic sovereign, he was, through the divine blessing which rested on his government, raised to a position of great public and national strength. Shalmaneser had withdrawn from Palestine, being engaged perhaps in a war with Tyre, or probably he was dead. Assuming, consequently, that full independent sovereignty which God had settled on the house of David, he both shook off the Assyrian yoke, and, by an energetic movement against the Philistines, recovered from that people the territory which they had taken from his fathe…
In the fourth year - This history has been already given, Kg2 17:3, etc.
John Gill on 2 Kings 18:11
And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria,.... Of the places he disposed of them in, after mentioned; see Gill on 2 Kings 17:6.
Keil & Delitzsch
Dictionary and topics
Gozan — A region in Central Asia to which the Israelites were carried away captive (2 Kings 17:6; 1 Chr. 5:26; 2 Kings 19:12; Isa. 37:12). It was situated in Mesopotamia, on the river Habor (2 Kings 17:6;…
Habor — The united stream, or, according to others, with beautiful banks, the name of a river in Assyria, and also of the district through which it flowed (1 Chr. 5:26). There is a river called Khabur which…
Halah — A district of Media to which captive Israelites were transported by the Assyrian kings (2 Kings 17:6; 18:11; 1 Chr. 5:26). It lay along the banks of the upper Khabur, from its source to its junction…
Media — Heb. Madai, which is rendered in the Authorized Version (1) “Madai,” Gen. 10:2; (2) “Medes,” 2 Kings 17:6; 18:11; (3) “Media,” Esther 1:3; 10:2; Isa. 21:2; Dan. 8:20; (4) “Mede,” only in Dan. 11:1.…
Samaria — A watch-mountain or a watch-tower. In the heart of the mountains of Israel, a few miles north-west of Shechem, stands the “hill of Shomeron,” a solitary mountain, a great “mamelon.” It is an oblong…
Sargon — (In the inscriptions, “Sarra-yukin” [the god] has appointed the king; also “Sarru-kinu,” the legitimate king.) On the death of Shalmaneser (B.C. 723), one of the Assyrian generals established himself…
Shalmaneser — (fire-worshipper) was the Assyrian king who reigned probably between Tiglath-Pileser and Sargon, B.C. 727-722. He led the forces of Assyria into Palestine, where Hoshea, the last king of Israel, had…
Assyria · Shalmaneser — Shalmaneser
Captivity · Of the ten tribes — Of the ten tribes
Disobedience To God · Exemplified: Israel — Exemplified: Israel
Gozan · the conquest of Samaria
on 2 Kings 18:9-12
In Kg2 18:9-12 the destruction of the kingdom of the ten tribes by Salmanasar, which has already been related according to the annals of the kingdom of Israel in Kg2 17:3-6, is related once more according to the annals of the kingdom of Judah, in which this catastrophe is also introduced as an event that was memorable in relation to all the covenant-nation.
Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Kings 18:9-12
The narrator introduces the fall of Samaria as a reminder that Assyria was the prevailing power of the era and that Samaria fell because of Hoshea’s apostasy, thus setting the stage for the account of Hezekiah’s demonstration of spiritual fiber and God’s dealing with him (18:19–19:19).
Rashi on 2 Kings 18:7
He succeeded. He succeeded.6ישכיל stems from שכל [=intelligence]. Adonoy successful person is conceived by others as one who acts with intelligence.—Metzudas Dovid 7As in, “Dovid was successful [=משכיל] in all his ways,” in I Shmuel 18:14.
Halah · A place to which Israelite — A place to which Israelite
Hoshea · .Last king of Israel — .Last king of Israel
Jews, The · Taken captive to Assyria and Babylon — Taken captive to Assyria and Babylon
Medes · Israelites distributed among, when — Israelites distributed among, when
Samaria · the people — the people
Samaria, Ancient · Inhabitants of, carried captive to Assyria — Inhabitants of, carried captive to Assyria
Shalmaneser · Overthrows the kingdom of Israel — Overthrows the kingdom of Israel
Siege · .Samaria — .Samaria
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
