² But it was in Ecbatana, the capital in the province of Media, that a scroll was found on which this was written: “A record.

⁶ In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria captured Samaria; he carried the Israelites away to Assyria. He placed them in Halah, on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.^(A)