2 Kings 17:6-8

International Standard Version

⁶ As a result, during the ninth year of the reign of^[a] Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and took the Israelis off to Assyria, placing them in Halah, along the Habor River in Gozan, and in cities ruled by the Medes.

The Idolatry of the Northern Kingdom

⁷ This happened because the Israelis had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt and from the domination^[b] of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, because^[c] they were fearing other gods, ⁸ and because they were following^[d] the rules of the nations whom the Lord had expelled before the Israelis and that the kings of Israel had practiced.