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2 Kings 17:23-25
International Standard Version
2 Kings 17:23-25
International Standard Version
23 until the Lord removed Israel from his presence,[a] just as he had warned through[b] all of his prophets who served him. So Israel was carried off into exile from their own land into Assyria, where they remain to this day.[c]
Assyria Supplants the Northern Kingdom
24 Because the king of Assyria brought captives[d] from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sephar-vaim and settled them in the cities of Samaria to replace the Israelis, the settlers[e] possessed Samaria and lived in its cities. 25 When they first began to live there, the settlers[f] did not fear the Lord, so he sent lions among them, and they killed a few of them.
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- 2 Kings 17:23 Lit. sight
- 2 Kings 17:23 Lit. spoken by the hand of
- 2 Kings 17:23 I.e. c. during the late Babylonian captivity or slightly after that time
- 2 Kings 17:24 The Heb. lacks captives
- 2 Kings 17:24 The Heb. lacks the settlers
- 2 Kings 17:25 The Heb. lacks the settlers
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