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2 Kings 17:6-8
Holman Christian Standard Bible
2 Kings 17:6-8
Holman Christian Standard Bible
The Fall of Samaria
6 In the ninth year of Hoshea,(A) the king of Assyria captured Samaria. He deported(B) the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah and by the Habor, Gozan’s river, and in the cities of the Medes.(C)
Why Israel Fell
7 This disaster happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt(D) and because they had worshiped[a] other gods.(E) 8 They had lived according to the customs of the nations that the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites(F) and the customs the kings of Israel had introduced.(G)
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