2Ki 17:1-6, 18:11, Jer 50:17, 51:34, Lam 2:2, 5, 16, Eze 36:3 | TSK | STEP | Hoshea's wicked reign. Being subdued by Shalmaneser, he conspires against him with So, king of Egypt. Samaria for sinning is led into captivity. The strange nations which were transplanted into Samaria, being plagued with lions, make a mixture of religions. A.M. 3274. B.C. 730. In the twelfth.In ch. 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 ch. 15:30. Finally, the 12th year of Ahaz, Hosea had peaceable possession of the whole kingdom, agreeably to ch. 17:1." Hoshea."After an interregnum, ch. 15:30; 18:9."

2 Kings 17:1-6

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 The strange nations which were transplanted into Samaria, being plagued with lions, make a mixture of religions.

A.M. 3274. B.C. 730. In the twelfth.In ch. 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 ch. 15:30. Finally, the 12th year of Ahaz, Hosea had peaceable possession of the whole kingdom, agreeably to ch. 17:1."

Hoshea."After an interregnum, ch. 15:30; 18:9."

but not as the kings.

3:2; 10:31; 13:2,11; 15:9,18,24; 2Ch 30:5-11

Shalmaneser.This was the son and successor of Tiglath-pileser: he reigned 14 years, from A.M. 3276 to 3290.

18:9; Ho 10:14

Shalman. king of Assyria.

15:19,29; 16:7; 18:13; 19:36,37; Isa 7:7,8; 10:5,6,11,12

and Hoshea.

16:8; 18:14-16,31

gave. Heb. rendered. presents. or, tribute.

2Sa 8:2,6

A.M. 3279. B.C. 725. found conspiracy.

24:1,20; Eze 17:13-19

king of Egypt.

18:21; Isa 30:1-4; 31:1-3; Eze 17:15

brought.

18:14,15

bound him.

25:7; 2Ch 32:11; Ps 149:7,8

A.M. 3281-3283. B.C. 723-721. the king.

18:9

three years.

25:1-3; Jer 52:4,5

A.M. 3283. B.C. 721. the king of Assyria.

18:10,11; Ho 1:6,9; 13:16

foretold. carried.

Le 26:32,33,38; De 4:25-28; 28:36,64; 29:27,28; 30:18

1Ki 14:15,16; Am 5:27

Halah.

19:12; 1Ch 5:26; Isa 37:12,13

the Medes.

Isa 13:17; 21:2; Da 5:28

2 Kings 18:11

the king.

17:6; 19:11; 1Ch 5:26; Isa 7:8; 8:4; 9:9-21; 10:5,11; 37:12; Ho 8:8,9

Ho 9:3; Am 5:1-3,6,25-27; Ac 7:43

Halah.It is thought, with much probability, that Halah, or Chalach, is Ptolemy's Calachene, the northern part of Assyria; that Habor, or Chabor, is the mountain or mountainous country, between Media and Assyria, called by Ptolemy, [Chaboras,] Chaboras; and that Gozan is Gauzanitis of Ptolemy, situated between that mountain and the Caspian sea, and between the two channels of the river Cyrus.