Then Shalmaneser invaded Israel and besieged Samaria. In the third year of the siege,

In the fourth year of Hezekiah's reign---which was the seventh year of King Hoshea's reign over Israel---Emperor Shalmaneser of Assyria invaded Israel and besieged Samaria.

Zedekiah rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia, and so Nebuchadnezzar came with all his army and attacked Jerusalem on the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign. They set up camp outside the city, built siege walls around it,

They will attack every town in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and the high, fortified walls in which you trust will fall.

King Benhadad of Syria gathered all his troops, and supported by thirty-two other rulers with their horses and chariots, he marched up, laid siege to Samaria, and launched attacks against it.

The king of Syria had ordered his thirty-two chariot commanders to attack no one else except the king of Israel.

There was a little town without many people in it. A powerful king attacked it. He surrounded it and prepared to break through the walls.