What does 2 Kings 17:3-5 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gavea him presents.
And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no presentb to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.