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, along the Habor (Gozan’s river), and in the cities of the Medes.^(C)

¹³ Still, the Lord warned^(A) Israel and Judah through every prophet and every seer, saying, ‘Turn from your evil ways and keep my commands and statutes according to the whole law I commanded your ancestors and sent to you through my servants the prophets.’^(B)