2 Reis 17:6

6 No ano nono de Oséias, o rei da Assíria tomou Samária, e levou Israel cativo para a Assíria; e fê-los habitar em Hala, e junto a Habor, o rio de Gozã, e nas cidades dos medos.

2 Reis 17:6 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 17:6

In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria,
&c.]. Which was the last year of his reign, and to be reckoned either from the time of his reigning in full power and authority, or from his first casting off the Assyrian yoke; (See Gill on 2 Kings 17:1)

and carried Israel away into Assyria;
not only the inhabitants of Samaria, but all the ten tribes inhabiting the several parts of the kingdom, for which Josephus is express ^F1

and placed them in Halah, and in Habor, by the river of Gozan;
some of them he placed here, which were in Assyria. Halah is the Calachena of Ptolemy, at the north of Assyria, and Habor is the mount Chobaras of the same; from which mountain, as you go to the Caspian sea, about midway, is the city Gauzania, the same with Gozan, which might give name to this river ^F2. The Jews say ^F3, this is the river Sambation, which runs so swiftly, that there is no passing except on the sabbath day; and which then the Jews cannot pass because of the profanation of the sabbath; and is the reason they give why the ten tribes are there detained; and Manasseh ben Israel ^F4 fancies Habor to be Tabor, a province in Tartary, where some Jews are:

and in the cities of the Medes;
others of them he placed there, under his jurisdiction, the same with Hara, ( 1 Chronicles 5:26 ) , which with the Greeks is called Aria; and Herodotus says ^F5, these Medes formerly were called by all Arii. It appears from hence that the kingdom of Media was now subject to the king of Assyria: some ^F6 take Halach to be Colchi, and Habor to be Iberia, and Hara to be Armenia, and Gauzani to be Media, which all bounded the north of Assyria.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 Antiqu. l. 9. c. 10. sect. 1.
F2 Vid. Witsium de 10 Trib. Israel. c. 4. sect. 2.
F3 Rambam apud Eliam in Tishbi, p. 134.
F4 Spes Israelis, sect. 17. p. 55.
F5 Polymnia, sive, l. 7. c. 60. So Pausanias Corinthiac. sive, l. 2. p. 91. Vid. Vossium in Melam, de Situ Orbis, l. 1. c. 2. p. 13.
F6 See Bierwood's Inquiries, p. 104.

2 Reis 17:6 In-Context

4 O rei da Assíria , porém, achou em Oséias conspiração; porque ele enviara mensageiros a Sô, rei do Egito, e não pagava, como dantes, os tributos anuais ao rei da Assíria; então este o encerrou e o pôs em grilhões numa prisão.

5 E o rei da Assíria subiu por toda a terra, e chegando a Samária sitiou-a por três anos.

6 No ano nono de Oséias, o rei da Assíria tomou Samária, e levou Israel cativo para a Assíria; e fê-los habitar em Hala, e junto a Habor, o rio de Gozã, e nas cidades dos medos.

7 Assim sucedeu, porque os filhos de Israel tinham pecado contra o Senhor seu Deus que os fizera subir da terra do Egito, de debaixo da mãe de Faraó, rei do Egito, e porque haviam temido a outros deuses,

8 e andado segundo os costumes das nações que o Senhor lançara fora de diante dos filhos de Israel, e segundo os que os reis de Israel introduziram.