²⁹ In the days of Pekah king of Israel, ^[a](A)Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon and Abel-beth-maacah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and ^(B)he took them away into exile to Assyria.

^9 (A)So the king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus and ^(B)seized it and took the people of it away into exile to ^(C)Kir, and put Rezin to death.

Israel Exiled to Assyria

⁶ In the ninth year of Hoshea, ^(A)the king of Assyria captured Samaria and ^(B)took Israel away into exile to Assyria, and ^(C)settled them in Halah and Habor, on the river of ^(D)Gozan, and ^(E)in the cities of the Medes.

Exiled Men in the Cities of Samaria

^24 (A)And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon and from Cuthah and from ^[a](B)Avva and from ^(C)Hamath and Sepharvaim, and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the sons of Israel. So they possessed Samaria and lived in its cities.

²⁶ So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of ^(A)Pul, king of Assyria, even the spirit of ^[a]Tilgath-pilneser, king of Assyria, and he ^(B)took them away into exile, namely the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day.