Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Of Shalmaneser, the successor of Tiglath-pileser in the Assyrian Canon, we know little from Assyrian sources, since his records have been mutilated by his successors, the Sargonids, who were of a wholly different family. The archives of Tyre mention him as contemporary with, and warring against, a Tyrian king named Elulaeus. The expedition, referred to here, was probably in the first year of Shalmaneser (727 BC). Its main object was the reduction of Phoenicia, which had re-asserted its independence, but (except Tyre) was once more completely reduced. Shalmaneser probably passed on from Phoenicia into Galilee, where he attacked and took Beth-arbel (Arbela of Josephus, now Irbid), treating it with great severity Hosea 10:14, in order to alarm Hoshea, who immediately submitted, and became tributary (see the marginal rendering and I Kings 4:21 note). Shalmaneser then returned into Assyria.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 2 Kings 17:3:
2 Chronicles 29:24
2 Chronicles 30:6
Isaiah 7:8
Isaiah 28:1
Isaiah 28:2
Hosea 1:11
Hosea 10:14
Amos 8:9
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