2 Kings 18:10

Webster's Bible (1833)

At the end of three years they took it: in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was 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 Samaria will bear her guilt; For she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, And their pregnant women will be ripped open."
• Amos 3:11-4:3 : 11 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "An adversary will overrun the land; And he will pull down your strongholds, And your fortresses will be plundered." 12 Thus says Yahweh: "As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs, Or a piece of an ear, So shall the children of Israel be rescued who sit in Samaria on the corner of a couch, And on the silken cushions of a bed." 13 "Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob," says the Lord Yahweh, the God of hosts. 14 "For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel; And the horns of the altar will be cut off, And fall to the ground. 15 I will strike the winter house with the summer house; And the houses of ivory will perish, And the great houses will have an end," says Yahweh. 1 Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their lords, "Bring, and let us drink." 2 The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, "The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, And the last of you with fish hooks. 3 You will go out at the breaks in the wall, Everyone straight before her; And you will cast yourselves into Harmon," says Yahweh.
• Amos 6:7 : 7 Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive; And the feasting and lounging will end.
• Amos 9:1-4 : 1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, "Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape. 2 Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down. 3 Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them. 4 Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good.
• Mic 1:6-9 : 6 Therefore I will make Samaria like a rubble heap of the field, Like places for planting vineyards; And I will pour down its stones into the valley, And I will uncover its foundations. 7 All her idols will be beaten to pieces, And all her temple gifts will be burned with fire, And all her images I will destroy; For of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, And to the hire of a prostitute shall they return." 8 For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, And moan like the daughters of owls. 9 For her wounds are incurable; For it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the gate of my people, Even to Jerusalem.
• Mic 6:16 : 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, And all the works of the house of Ahab. You walk in their counsels, That I may make you a ruin, And her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people."
• Mic 7:13 : 13 Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, For the fruit of their doings.