(A)In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and (B)carried Israel away to Assyria, (C)and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

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Assyria Resettles Samaria

24 (A)Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, (B)Ava, Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they took possession of Samaria and dwelt in its cities.

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[a]From Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions—representatives of (A)the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the people of Persia and Erech and Babylon and [b]Shushan, the Dehavites, the Elamites,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 4:9 Lit. Then
  2. Ezra 4:9 Or Susa

10 (A)and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnapper took captive and settled in the cities of Samaria and the remainder beyond [a]the River—(B)and[b] so forth.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 4:10 The Euphrates
  2. Ezra 4:10 Lit. and now

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