2 Kings 17:4-6

New English Translation

⁴ The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt.^[a] Hoshea had sent messengers to King So^[b] of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him.^{[c] 5} The king of Assyria marched through^[d] the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years. ⁶ In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel^[e] to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.