2 Kings 17:6-8

New Catholic Bible

⁶ The king of Assyria captured Samaria in the ninth year of the reign of Hoshea. He carried Israel away into Assyria, settling them in Halah, near Habor, on the River Gozan, in the cities of the Medes. ⁷ This happened because the Israelites had sinned against the Lord, their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. They had revered other gods ⁸ and they had walked in the statutes of the nations whom the Lord had cast out before them and that the kings of Israel had introduced.