The king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria seized him, and bound him in prison.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    The king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria seized him, and bound him in prison.

  • KJV King James Version

    And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present 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.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no present 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.

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Cross-references (10)

Passages linked to 2 Kings 17:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • 2 Kings 18:14-15 Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, “I have offended you. Return from me. That which you put on me, I will bear.” The king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in Yahweh’s house, and in the treasures of the king’s house.
  • 2 Kings 18:21 Now, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand, and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him.
  • 2 Kings 24:1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.
  • 2 Kings 24:20 For through the anger of Yahweh, this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
  • 2 Kings 25:7 They killed Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, then put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
  • 2 Chronicles 32:11 Doesn’t Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, ‘Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?’
  • Psalms 149:7-8 to execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples; to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
  • Isaiah 31:1-3 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don’t look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don’t seek Yahweh! Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity. Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
  • Ezekiel 17:13-19 He took some of the royal offspring, and made a covenant with him. He also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land; that the kingdom might be brought low, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand. But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the covenant, and still escape? “ ‘As I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the middle of Babylon he will die. Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company won’t help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons. For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things. He won’t escape. “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘As I live, I will surely bring on his own head my oath that he has despised and my covenant that he has broken.
  • Isaiah 30:1-4 “Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin, who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt! Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain For he had paid tribute for the space of…

For he had paid tribute for the space of eight years.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ki 17:4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain So king of Egypt; by heathen writers called Sua…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea,....…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 4. Found conspiracy to Hoshea] He had endeavoured…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 2Ki 17:4. The king of Assyria found conspiracy in…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain So, king of Egypt, is generally identified with Shebek…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Sua; probably Sabachon, king of Ethiopia, who made himself…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain found conspiracy in Hoshea--After having paid tribute for several…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 4. Found conspiracy in Hoshea — This, of course,…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 4. found conspiracy in Hoshea] No doubt the tributary…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (4) Conspiracy—i.e., as is presently explained, a conspiracy with…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And the King of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea:…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 This is the name of a man. (See: How…

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