⁶ In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria^(A) captured Samaria^(B) and deported^(C) the Israelites to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, in Gozan^(D) on the Habor River and in the towns of the Medes.

¹¹ Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered?^{(A) 12} Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my predecessors^(B) deliver them—the gods of Gozan, Harran,^(C) Rezeph and the people of Eden^(D) who were in Tel Assar? ¹³ Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad?^(E) Where are the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim,^(F) Hena and Ivvah?”^(G)