2 Kings 18:10

Geneva Bible (1560)

And after three yeeres they tooke it, euen in the sixt yeere of Hezekiah: that is, the ninth yeere of Hoshea King of Israel was Samaria taken.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַֽיִּלְכְּדֻ֗הָ מִקְצֵה֙ שָׁלֹ֣שׁ שָׁנִ֔ים בִּשְׁנַת־שֵׁ֖שׁ לְחִזְקִיָּ֑ה הִ֣יא שְׁנַת־תֵּ֗שַׁע לְהוֹשֵׁ֙עַ֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל נִלְכְּדָ֖ה שֹׁמְרֽוֹן׃

Transliteration

And wayyilkəduha at miqtseh three shanim in shənat-six to Ḥizqiyyah, hiʾ shənat-nine to Hosheaʿ melek Yisraʾel, nilkədah Shomeron.

Grammar Details

• *wayyilkəduha*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural with 3rd feminine singular suffix - and they captured it
• *miqtseh*: noun, masculine singular construct - end of
• *shanim*: noun, feminine plural - years
• *shənat*: noun, feminine singular construct - year of
• *Ḥizqiyyah*: proper noun, masculine singular
• *hiʾ*: pronoun, 3rd feminine singular - she/it
• *Hosheaʿ*: proper noun, masculine singular
• *melek*: noun, masculine singular construct - king of
• *Yisraʾel*: proper noun, masculine singular
• *nilkədah*: Niphal perfect 3rd feminine singular - she was captured
• *Shomeron*: proper noun, feminine singular - Samaria

Word Meanings

• *wayyilkəduha*: they captured it/they seized it/they took it
• *miqtseh*: at the end of/after/in the course of
• *nilkədah*: was captured/was seized/was taken

Referenced Verses

• Hos 13:16 : 16 (14:1) Samaria shalbe desolate: for she hath rebelled against her God: they shal fall by the sworde: their infants shalbe dashed in pieces, & their women with childe shalbe ript.
• Amos 3:11-4:3 : 11 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, An aduersary shall come euen rounde about the countrey, and shall bring downe thy strength fro thee, and thy palaces shalbe spoyled. 12 Thus saieth the Lorde, As the shephearde taketh out of the mouth of the lyon two legges, or a piece of an eare: so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus, as in a couche. 13 Heare, and testifie in the house of Iaakob, saith the Lord God, the God of hostes. 14 Surely in the day that I shal visit the transgressions of Israel vpon him, I wil also visite the altars of Beth-el, and the hornes of the altar shal be broken off, and fall to the ground. 15 And I wil smite the winter house with the sommer house, and the houses of yuorie shal perish, and the great houses shalbe consumed, sayth the Lord. 1 Heare this worde, ye kine of Bashan that are in the mountaine of Samaria, which oppresse the poore, & destroy the needie, and they say to their masters, Bring, and let vs drinke. 2 The Lord God hath sworne by his holines, that loe, the dayes shal come vpon you, that hee wil take you away with thornes, & your posteritie with fish hookes. 3 And ye shal goe out at the breaches euery kowe forward: and ye shal cast your selues out of the palace, saith the Lord.
• Amos 6:7 : 7 Therefore nowe shal they go captiue with the first that go captiue, and the sorow of them that stretched themselues, is at hand.
• Amos 9:1-4 : 1 I sawe the Lorde standing vpon the altar, and he sayde, Smite the lintel of the doore, that the postes may shake: and cut them in pieces, euen the heads of them all, and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them, shall not flee away: and he that escapeth of them, shall not be deliuered. 2 Though they digge into the hel, thence shal mine hande take them: though they clime vp to heauen, thence will I bring them downe. 3 And though they hide them selues in the toppe of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence: and though they be hid from my sight in the bottome of the sea, thence will I commande the serpent, and he shall bite them. 4 And though they goe into captiuitie before their enemies, thence wil I commande the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes vpon them for euill, and not for good.
• Mic 1:6-9 : 6 Therefore I wil make Samaria as an heape of the fielde, and for the planting of a vineyard, and I will cause the stones thereof to tumble downe into the valley, and I will discouer the foundations thereof. 7 And all the grauen images thereof shalbe broken, and all the giftes thereof shalbe burnt with the fire, and all the idoles thereof will I destroy: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shal returne to the wages of an harlot. 8 Therefore I will mourne and howle: I wil goe without clothes, and naked: I will make lamentation like the dragons, and mourning as the ostriches. 9 For her plagues are grieuous: for it is come into Iudah: the enemie is come vnto the gate of my people, vnto Ierusalem.
• Mic 6:16 : 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, & all the maner of the house of Ahab, and ye walke in their counsels, that I should make thee waste, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall beare the reproche of my people.
• Mic 7:13 : 13 Notwithstanding, the lande shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, and for the fruites of their inuentions.