^{5 Ref} Then the king of Assyria went through all the land and came up to Samaria, shutting it in with his forces for three years.

^{6 Ref} In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and took Israel away to Assyria, placing them in Halah and in Habor on the river Gozan, and in the towns of the Medes.

^{7 Ref} And the wrath of the Lord came on Israel because they had done evil against the Lord their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt from under the yoke of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and had become worshippers of other gods,