2 Kings 17:5-7

Revised Geneva Translation

⁵ Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land and went against Samaria and besieged it for three years.

⁶ In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria, Samaria took and carried Israel away to Assyria and put them in Halah and in Habor, by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

⁷ For when the children of Israel sinned against the LORD their God (Who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt) and feared other gods,