[As for] Samaria
The metropolis of the ten tribes of Israel, and here put for the
whole kingdom: her king is cut off;
which some understand of Pekah, who was killed by Hoshea; others
of several of their kings cut off one after another, very
suddenly and quickly, as the metaphor after used shows; or rather
Hoshea the last king is meant, who was cut off by the king of
Assyria; the present tense is used for the future, to denote the
certainty of it. Aben Ezra thinks the verb "cut off" is to be
repeated, Samaria is "cut off, her king [is] cut off"; both king
and kingdom destroyed. So the Targum,
``Samaria is cut off with her king:''as the foam upon the water;