
Text -- 2 Kings 17:4 (NET)




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JFB: 2Ki 17:4 - -- After having paid tribute for several years, Hoshea, determined on throwing off the Assyrian yoke, withheld the stipulated tribute. Shalmaneser, incen...
After having paid tribute for several years, Hoshea, determined on throwing off the Assyrian yoke, withheld the stipulated tribute. Shalmaneser, incensed at this rebellion, proclaimed war against Israel. This was in the sixth year of Hoshea's reign.

JFB: 2Ki 17:4 - -- The Sabaco of the classic historians, a famous Ethiopian who, for fifty years, occupied the Egyptian throne, and through whose aid Hoshea hoped to res...
The Sabaco of the classic historians, a famous Ethiopian who, for fifty years, occupied the Egyptian throne, and through whose aid Hoshea hoped to resist the threatened attack of the Assyrian conqueror. But Shalmaneser, marching against [Hoshea], scoured the whole country of Israel, besieged the capital Samaria, and carried the principal inhabitants into captivity in his own land, having taken the king himself, and imprisoned him for life. This ancient policy of transplanting a conquered people into a foreign land, was founded on the idea that, among a mixed multitude, differing in language and religion, they would be kept in better subjection, and have less opportunity of combining together to recover their independence.
Clarke -> 2Ki 17:4
Clarke: 2Ki 17:4 - -- Found conspiracy to Hoshea - He had endeavored to shake off the Assyrian yoke, by entering into a treaty with So, King of Egypt; and having done so,...
Found conspiracy to Hoshea - He had endeavored to shake off the Assyrian yoke, by entering into a treaty with So, King of Egypt; and having done so, he ceased to send the annual tribute to Assyria.
TSK -> 2Ki 17:4
TSK: 2Ki 17:4 - -- am 3279, bc 725
found conspiracy : 2Ki 24:1, 2Ki 24:20; Eze 17:13-19
king of Egypt : 2Ki 18:21; Isa 30:1-4, Isa 31:1-3; Eze 17:15
brought : 2Ki 18:14,...
am 3279, bc 725
found conspiracy : 2Ki 24:1, 2Ki 24:20; Eze 17:13-19
king of Egypt : 2Ki 18:21; Isa 30:1-4, Isa 31:1-3; Eze 17:15

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Barnes -> 2Ki 17:4
Barnes: 2Ki 17:4 - -- So, king of Egypt, is generally identified with Shebek (730 B.C.), the Sabaco of Herodotus. Hoshea’ s application to him was a return to a poli...
So, king of Egypt, is generally identified with Shebek (730 B.C.), the Sabaco of Herodotus. Hoshea’ s application to him was a return to a policy which had been successful in the reign of Jeroboam I (1Ki 12:20 note), but had not been resorted to by any other Israelite monarch. Egypt had for many years been weak, but Sabaco was a conqueror, who at the head of the swarthy hordes of Ethiopia had invaded Egypt and made himself master of the country. In the inscriptions of Shebek he boasts to have received tribute from "the king of Shara"(Syria), which is probably his mode of noticing Hoshea’ s application. References to the Egyptian proclivities of Hoshea are frequent in the prophet Hosea Hos 7:11; Hos 11:1, Hos 11:5; Hos 12:4. King Hoshea, simultaneously with his reception as a vassal by Sabaco, ceased to pay tribute to Shalmaneser, thus openly rebelling, and provoking the chastisement which followed.
Poole -> 2Ki 17:4
Poole: 2Ki 17:4 - -- So king of Egypt by heathen writers called Sua or Sabachus ; that by his assistance he might shake off the yoke of the king of Assyria; who now wa...
So king of Egypt by heathen writers called Sua or Sabachus ; that by his assistance he might shake off the yoke of the king of Assyria; who now was, and for many years had been, the king of Egypt’ s rival: see 2Ki 18:21 Jer 36:5 . Shut him up, and bound him in prison, to wit, after he had come up against him, and taken him, with Samaria; the particular relation whereof here follows.
Haydock -> 2Ki 17:4
Haydock: 2Ki 17:4 - -- Sua; probably Sabachon, king of Ethiopia, who made himself master of Egypt, and burnt king Bocchoris alive. Herodotus (ii. 137.) calls him Abacus. ...
Sua; probably Sabachon, king of Ethiopia, who made himself master of Egypt, and burnt king Bocchoris alive. Herodotus (ii. 137.) calls him Abacus. Jocquelot thinks that Sethon is meant, and that he was invaded by Sennacherib on account of this league with Osee. (Calmet) ---
Prison, after he had taken the city, (Haydock) which held out three years. This great city was then reduced to a heap of ruins, and so continued till after the captivity of the Jews, (1 Esdras iv. 17.) when it began to be peopled again. The inhabitants revolted against Alexander the Great, who placed Macedonians in their city, and gave the territory to the Jews. It was afterwards seized by the kings of Egypt and of Syria. But Hyrcan retook it, and levelled it with the ground. Gabinius built another town here, which bore his name till Herod greatly enlarged it, and called it Sebaste. (Calmet) ---
The prophets describe the distress of Samaria, Osee x. 4., and xiv. 1., Micheas i. 6., and Jeremias xxxi. 5.)
Gill -> 2Ki 17:4
Gill: 2Ki 17:4 - -- And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea,.... That he was forming a scheme to rebel against him, and cast off his yoke; of this he had intel...
And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea,.... That he was forming a scheme to rebel against him, and cast off his yoke; of this he had intelligence by spies he sent, and placed to observe him very probably:
for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt; to treat with him, and enter into alliance with him, to help him against, and free him from, the king of Assyria. This king of Egypt is supposed to be Sabacon the Ethiopian, who reigned in Egypt ninety years; of whom Herodotus y and Diodorus Siculus z make mention; by Theodoret he is called Adramelech the Ethiopian, who dwelt in Egypt:
and brought no presents to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; did not pay him his yearly tribute:
therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison; that is, after he took Samaria, the siege of which is next related; unless it can be thought that he met with him somewhere out of the capital, and seized him, and made him his prisoner, and after that besieged his city; which is not so likely.

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TSK Synopsis -> 2Ki 17:1-41
TSK Synopsis: 2Ki 17:1-41 - --1 Hoshea's wicked reign.3 Being subdued by Shalmaneser, he conspires against him with So, king of Egypt.5 Samaria for sinning is led into captivity.24...
MHCC -> 2Ki 17:1-6
MHCC: 2Ki 17:1-6 - --When the measure of sin is filled up, the Lord will forbear no longer. The inhabitants of Samaria must have endured great affliction. Some of the poor...
Matthew Henry -> 2Ki 17:1-6
Matthew Henry: 2Ki 17:1-6 - -- We have here the reign and ruin of Hoshea, the last of the kings of Israel, concerning whom observe, I. That, though he forced his way to the crown ...
Keil-Delitzsch -> 2Ki 17:4-5
Keil-Delitzsch: 2Ki 17:4-5 - --
The king of Assyria found a conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So the king of Egypt, and did not pay the tribute to the king of Ass...
Constable -> 2Ki 9:30--18:1; 2Ki 17:1-6
Constable: 2Ki 9:30--18:1 - --C. The Second Period of Antagonism 9:30-17:41
The kingdoms of Israel and Judah continued without an alli...
