2 Kings 18:9-11

Contemporary English Version

⁹ During the fourth year of Hezekiah's rule, which was the seventh year of Hoshea's rule in Israel, King Shalmaneser of Assyria led his troops to Samaria, the capital city of Israel. They attacked ¹⁰ and captured it three years later,^[a] in the sixth year of Hezekiah's rule and the ninth year of Hoshea's rule. ¹¹ The king of Assyria^[b] took the Israelites away as prisoners; he forced some of them to live in the town of Halah, others to live near the Habor River in the territory of Gozan, and still others to live in towns where the Median people lived.