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.
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Gill's Exposition
And at the end of three years they took it,.... That is, at the first end of them, at the beginning, in which sense the phrase is taken in Deu 15:1, even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is, the…
These verses repeat the account given in the marginal reference. The extreme importance of the event may account for the double insertion.
Adam Clarke
In the fourth year - This history has been already given, Kg2 17:3, etc.
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
Israel finally carried captive by Shalmaneser (Not in Chronicles)
9. Shalmaneser … came up against Samaria and besieged it Probably the negotiations with So king of Egypt had still gone forward (2Ki…