2 Kings 17:5-6

Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria, and for three years he besieged it.

The Fall of Israel

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria a captured Samaria, b and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria c and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of d Gozan, and in the cities of e the Medes.

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