Day 183: Israel Falls to Assyria (2026)
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What is happening in 2 Kings 17 and why is Day 183 significant?
It is day 183. Okay, so I think yesterday I said that halfway through day 182, 182.5, we would be halfway through. I think that math is wrong. I think that means halfway through today is when we're at 182.5, right? Doesn't that make sense? I think so. So this is halfway. So today is halfway. And if you celebrated yesterday, wow, I've made it halfway. You can celebrate again today because it's the maybe real halfway. I don't know, people who are better at math than me, I didn't realize it's simple division. You're just dividing 365 by two. But, you know, nonetheless, we're at day 183. We're reading 2 Kings chapter 17. This is the day that we leave the divided kingdom and go into, well, not, we'll leave the period of the divided kingdom and enter tomorrow into the period of exile.
So this is the fall of Samaria. This is the fall of Samaria. the kingdom of the north in second kings 17 we're reading micah chapter 5 6 and 7 including the book of the prophet micah and we're praying psalm 140 as always the bible translation i'm reading from is the revised standard version second catholic edition i am using the great adventure bible from ascension if you want to download your own bible in a year reading plan you can visit ascensionpress.com slash bible in a year you can also subscribe to this podcast by clicking on subscribe wherever you listen to your podcast here we go it's day one it's day 183 Let's get started because this is a gift, a gift of being able to come to this place.
We've been following the kingdom of Israel, been following those 10 tribes in the north for a long time now. And we've been following the book of the prophet Micah yesterday, just starting yesterday, but continuing today and recognizing here's what he has to say to these tribes in the north. That's one of the things that prophets will continue to do. They continue to preach both to Judah and to Israel, basically saying you need to repent or what is going to happen to you is judgment is going to happen. And so we realize we're being called back to. So here we are, day 183, 2 Kings 17, Micah 5, 6, and 7, and Psalm 140. 2 Kings 17 Hosea Reigns Over Israel In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hosea the son of Elah began to reign in Samaria over Israel, and he reigned nine years.
And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him. Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria, and Hosea became his vassal and paid him tribute. but the king of assyria found treachery in hoshea for he had sent messengers to so king of egypt and offered no tribute to the king of assyria as he had done year by year therefore the king of assyria shut him up and bound him in prison then the king of assyria invaded all the land and came to samaria and for three years he besieged it In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria, and placed them in Hala, and on the Hebor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Sins of Israel lead to deportation. And this was so because the sons of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and had feared other gods and walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the sons of Israel, and in the customs which the kings of Israel had introduced. And the sons of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places at all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city. They set up for themselves pillars in Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree. And there they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord carried away before them.
And they did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger. And they served idols of which the Lord had said to them, You shall not do this. Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes in accordance with all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is happening in 2 Kings 17 and why is Day 183 significant?
0:03–13:27
2
How did Assyria capture Samaria and deport the ten northern tribes?
13:27–17:11
3
Why does 2 Kings 17 blame Israel's idolatry for the exile?
17:11–27:31
4
How did the king of Assyria resettle Samaria and what religious mix emerged?
27:31–27:44