2 Kings 17:3

3 Shalmaneser the king of Assyria came up against him, and Hoshea became his vassal and paid tribute to him.

2 Kings 17:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 17:3

Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria
Which some take to be the same with Tiglathpileser, see ( 1 Chronicles 5:26 ) but he rather seems to be his son; his name was to be found, as Josephus ^F23 relates, in the archives of the Tyrians, against whom he had an expedition; his name is Salmanassar in Metasthenes ^F24, who says he reigned seventeen years:

and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents,
to depart from him; he became tributary to him, and agreed to pay him a yearly tax.

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 Antiqu. l. 9. c. 14. sect. 2.
F24 De Judicio Temp. fol. 221. 2.

2 Kings 17:3 In-Context

1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz the king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, [reigning] nine years.

2 He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, only not as the kings of Israel who were before him.

3 Shalmaneser the king of Assyria came up against him, and Hoshea became his vassal and paid tribute to him.

4 But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and he did not offer tribute to the king of Assyria as [he had] year after year; so the king of Assyria arrested him, and confined him [in] a house of imprisonment.

5 So the king of Assyria went up in all the land, then he went up [to] Samaria and besieged it [for] three years.

Footnotes

• [a]. This would have been Shalmaneser V of Assyria (ruled ca. 727-722 bc)