2 Kings 17:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ But the sovereign of Ashshur found a conspiracy in Hoshĕ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ But the king of Assyria found treachery 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 shut him up and bound him in prison.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And 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 shut him up, and bound him in prison.

Common English Bible

⁴ But the Assyrian king discovered that Hoshea was a traitor, because Hoshea sent messengers to Egypt’s King So. Hoshea stopped paying tribute to the Assyrian king as he had in previous years, so the Assyrian king arrested him and put him in prison.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And when the king of the Assyrians discovered that Hoshea, striving to rebel, had sent messengers to Sais, to the king of Egypt, so as not to present the tribute to the king of the Assyrians, as he had been accustomed to do each year, he besieged him. And having been bound, he cast him into prison.

2 Kings 17:4 Cross References

2 Kings 17:3

Shalmaneser sovereign of Ashshur came up against him. And Hoshĕ

2 Kings 17:5

And the sovereign of Ashshur went through all the land, and went up to Shomeron and besieged it for three years.

2 Kings 18:21

“Now look! You have put your trust in the staff of this crushed reed, Mitsrayim, on which if a man leans, it shall go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim to all who trust in him.

2 Kings 24:1

In his days Neḇ

2 Kings 24:20

For this took place in Yerushalayim and Yehuḏ

2 Kings 25:7

And they slaughtered the sons of Tsiḏ

2 Chronicles 32:11

‘Is Ḥ

Hosea 10:4

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant. Therefore judgment shall spring up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

Hosea 12:2

And יהוה  has a controversy with Yehuḏ

Hosea 13:10

“Where is your sovereign now to save you in all your cities, and your rulers of whom you said, ‘Give me a sovereign and rulers’?

Hosea 8:10

“Also, although they sold themselves among the nations, this time I shall gather them, when they have suffered for a while from the burden of a sovereign, of rulers.

Deuteronomy 28:36

“יהוה  brings you and the sovereign whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other mighty ones, wood and stone.