The king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.(A)

The Fall of Samaria

In the ninth year of Hoshea,(B) the king of Assyria captured Samaria. He deported(C) the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, along the Habor (Gozan’s river), and in the cities of the Medes.(D)

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42 God turned away(A) and gave them up to worship(B) the stars of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:

House of Israel, did you bring me offerings and sacrifices
for forty years in the wilderness?
43 You took up the tent of Moloch
and the star of your god Rephan,
the images that you made to worship.
So I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. 7:42–43 Am 5:25–27

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