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.

¹⁹ and even Judah did not keep the commands of the Lord their God. They followed the practices Israel had introduced.^(A)