2 Kings 17:1

Contextual Overview

¹In the twelfth year of Judah’s King Ahaz, Hoshea son of Elah became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned nine years. ¹ In the twelfth year of Achaz king of Yehudah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Shomron over Yisra'el, [and reigned] nine years. ¹ In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years. ¹ In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign in Samaria over Israel, and he reigned nine years. ¹ Hoshea son of Elah became king over Israel during Ahaz's twelfth year as king of Judah. Hoshea ruled in Samaria nine years. ¹ In the twelfth year of King Ahaz's reign over Judah, Hoshea son of Elah became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria for nine years. ¹In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah became king over Israel in Samaria, and reigned for nine years.¹ In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah became king over Israel in Samaria, and reigned for nine years.¹ In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel, [and reigned] nine years. ¹ In the twelft yeere of Ahaz King of Iudah began Hoshea the sonne of Elah to reigne in Samaria ouer Israel, and reigned nine yeeres.

Bible Verse Review
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In the twelfth: In 2 Kings 15:30, this is said to be "the twentieth year of Jotham," which Calmet thus reconciles: "Hosea conspired against Pekah, the 20th year of the reign of this prince, which was the 18th of Jotham, king of Judah. Two years after this, that is, the 4th of Ahaz and the 20th of Jotham, Hosea made himself master of a part of the kingdom, according to 2 Kings 15:30. Finally, the 12th year of Ahaz, Hosea had peaceable possession of the whole kingdom, agreeably to 2 Kings 17:1."

Hoshea: "After an interregnum, 2 Kings 15:30, 2 Kings 18:9." 2 Kings 17:1

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:52 - General 1 Kings 16:24 - the name of the city 2 Kings 18:1 - in the third Hosea 8:8 - swallowed Hosea 13:11 - General Zechariah 1:18 - four

Cross-References

Genesis 5:22
Hanokh walked with God after he became the father of Metushelach three hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:22
And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

Genesis 5:22
And Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah three hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:22
After Methuselah was born, Enoch walked with God 300 years more and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:22
After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God for 300 years, and he had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:22
Enoch walked [in habitual fellowship] with God three hundred years after the birth of Methuselah and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:22
Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he fathered Methuselah, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:22
And Henoch walked with God, after he begate Methushelah, three hundreth yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

Genesis 5:22
Then Enoch walked with God 300 years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:22
and during the next three hundred years he had more children. Enoch truly loved God,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In the tenth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years. In this account there is some difficulty, since it was in the twentieth of Jotham, that is, the fourth of Ahaz, that Hosea conspired against Pekah king of Israel, and slew him, when it might be reasonably thought he began his reign: now either there was an interregnum until the twelfth of Ahaz, or Hoshea however was not generally received and acknowledged as king till then, as others think; he being a tributary to the king of Assyria, and a kind of viceroy, is not said to reign until he rebelled against him; after which he reigned nine years, four in the times of Ahaz, and five in the reign of Hezekiah, 2 Kings 18:9, in this way the author of the Jewish chronology goes r, in which he is followed by other Jewish writers; and this bids as fair as any to remove the difficulty, unless these nine years refer to the time of his reign before the twelfth of Ahaz; and the sense be, that in the twelfth of Ahaz he had reigned nine year's; but it is said he "began" to reign then.

r Seder Olam Rabba, c. 22.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the twelfth year - Compare 2 Kings 15:30 note. The history of the kingdom of Israel is in this chapter brought to a close.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XVII

Hoshea's wicked reign, 1, 2.

Shalmaneser comes up against him, makes him tributary, and

then casts him into prison, 3, 4.

He besieges Samaria three years; and at last takes it, and

carries Israel captive into Assyria, and places them in

different cities of the Assyrians and Medes, 5, 6.

The reason why Israel was thus afflicted; their idolatry,

obstinacy, divination, c., 7-18.

Judah copies the misconduct of Israel, 19.

The Lord rejects all the seed of Israel, 20-23.

The king of Assyria brings different nations and places them

in Samaria, and the cities from which the Israelites had been

led away into captivity, 24.

Many of these strange people are destroyed by lions, 25.

The king of Assyria sends back some of the Israelitish priests

to teach these nations the worship of Jehovah which worship

they incorporate with their own idolatry, 26-33.

The state of the Israelites, and strange nations in the land of

Israel, 34-41.

NOTES ON CHAP. XVII