² And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:

⁶ In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.