2 Kings 17:4
“An the king of Assyria found conspiracie in Hoshea: for hee had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done yeere by yeere: therefore the king of Assyria shut him vp, and bound him in prison.”
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2 Kings 17:4 Context
2And hee did that which was euill in the sight of the Lord, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him. 3¶ Against him came vp Shalmaneser king of Assyria, and Hoshea became his seruant, and gaue him presents. 4An the king of Assyria found conspiracie in Hoshea: for hee had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done yeere by yeere: therefore the king of Assyria shut him vp, and bound him in prison. 5¶ Then the king of Assyria came vp thorowout all the land, and went vp to Samaria, and besieged it three yeres. 6¶ In the ninth yeere of Hoshea, the king of Assyria tooke Samaria, and caried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and in Habor by the riuer of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
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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.
- King James Version
But the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea, who had sent messengers to So king of Egypt and had offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as {he had done} year by year; so the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.
- New American Standard Version (1995)