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Assyria takes Samaria

Assyria takes Samaria is dated 722 BC in the Modern reckoning and 721 BC in the Traditional. It is told in 2 Kings 17:6.

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.

2 Kings 17:6 BSB

When did it happen?

Modern reckoning
722 BC
Traditional reckoning
721 BC
How it's dated
Assyrian records

Theographic has no event for it; its reign of Hoshea ends in 721 BC.

Dates before about 900 BC depend on how the Bible's own numbers are added up. Why the two reckonings differ.

Sources: Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 1): Shalmaneser V; Theographic event 224 (Hoshea).

Where is it in the Bible?

Which verses connect to 2 Kings 17:6?

The strongest cross-references of the key verse, ranked by reader votes (OpenBible.info).

  1. Hosea 13:166 votes

    Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

  2. Deuteronomy 28:645 votes

    Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

  3. 1 Chronicles 5:265 votes

    So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria (that is, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria) to take the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh into exile. And he brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river of Gozan, where they remain to this day.

  4. Leviticus 26:32–334 votes

    And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled. But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.

  5. Deuteronomy 28:364 votes

    The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.

  6. Deuteronomy 29:27–284 votes

    Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against this land, and He brought upon it every curse written in this book. The LORD uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and He cast them into another land, where they are today.’

Events, people and places: Theographic Bible Metadata (Robert Rouse), CC BY-SA 4.0, reshaped; dates also from the sources named on each anchor.