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2 Kings 17:6-8
New English Translation

6 In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel[a] to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.

A Summary of Israel’s Sinful History

7 This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of[b] Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped[c] other gods; 8 they observed the practices[d] of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before them,[e] and followed the example of the kings of Israel.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 17:6 tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.
  2. 2 Kings 17:7 tn Heb “and from under the hand of.” The words “freed them” for stylistic reasons replace the term “under.”
  3. 2 Kings 17:7 tn Heb “feared.”
  4. 2 Kings 17:8 tn Heb “walked in the customs.”
  5. 2 Kings 17:8 tn Heb “before the sons of Israel.”
  6. 2 Kings 17:8 tn Heb “and [the practices of] the kings of Israel which they did.”
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