² And at ^[a]Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of ^(A)Media, a scroll was found, and in it a record was written thus:

^6 (A)In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and ^(B)carried Israel away to Assyria, ^(C)and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.