^19 (A)Pul, king of Assyria, came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul one thousand ^[a]talents of silver so that his hand might be with him to ^(B)strengthen the kingdom in his hand.

²⁹ In the days of Pekah king of Israel, ^[a](A)Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon and Abel-beth-maacah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and ^(B)he took them away into exile to Assyria.

^3 (A)Shalmaneser king of Assyria went up ^(B)against him, and Hoshea became his servant and paid him tribute. ⁴ But the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea, who had sent messengers to So king of Egypt and had offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; therefore the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.

⁵ Then the king of Assyria went up against the whole land and he went up to ^(C)Samaria and besieged it three years.

Israel Exiled to Assyria

⁶ In the ninth year of Hoshea, ^(D)the king of Assyria captured Samaria and ^(E)took Israel away into exile to Assyria, and ^(F)settled them in Halah and Habor, on the river of ^(G)Gozan, and ^(H)in the cities of the Medes.

² so they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers’ households and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we, like you, seek your God; ^(A)and we have been sacrificing to Him since the days of ^(B)Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here.”