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The Fall of Israel

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria (A)captured Samaria, (B)and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria (C)and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of (D)Gozan, and in the cities of (E)the Medes.

Exile Because of Idolatry

And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, (F)who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods (G)and walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel, (H)and in the customs that the kings of Israel had practised.

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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.

Israel Exiled Because of Sin

All this took place because the Israelites had sinned(E) against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of Egypt(F) from under the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods and followed the practices of the nations(G) the Lord had driven out before them, as well as the practices that the kings of Israel had introduced.

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