And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:
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Gill's Exposition
Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah,.... Eight years after the captivity of Israel:
did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them; many of…
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
did carry away Israel R.V. transposes the last two words that the order may be the same as in 2Ki 17:6 where this verse appears almost word for word. On the changes made there and here in R.V., and on…
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