And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
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Gill's Exposition
Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord,.... In his law, and by his prophets:
but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded; which evils are at large…
These verses repeat the account given in the marginal reference. The extreme importance of the event may account for the double insertion.
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…
Cambridge Bible
at the end of three years they took it The consonants of the word rendered -they took it" might, if different vowel points were added to them, be translated -he took it". That the vowels for the…
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