Assyria Supplants the Northern Kingdom

²⁴ Because the king of Assyria brought captives^[a] from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sephar-vaim and settled them in the cities of Samaria to replace the Israelis, the settlers^[b] possessed Samaria and lived in its cities.

⁹ From Governor Rehum

Shimshai the scribe

The rest of their colleagues—

Judges, envoys, officials, Persians, the people of Erech, the Babylonians, the people of Susa (that is, the Elamites)

¹⁰ and many other nations whom the great and honorable Osnappar deported and resettled in Samaria and in the rest of the province beyond the Euphrates^[a] River.