2 Kings 17:3-6 — Legacy Standard Bible

³^aShalmaneser king of Assyria went up ^bagainst him, and Hoshea became his servant and paid him tribute. ⁴But the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea, who had sent messengers to So king of Egypt and had offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; therefore the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.

⁵Then the king of Assyria went up against the whole land and he went up to ^aSamaria and besieged it three years.

Israel Exiled to Assyria

⁶In the ninth year of Hoshea, ^athe king of Assyria captured Samaria and ^btook Israel away into exile to Assyria, and ^csettled them in Halah and Habor, on the river of ^dGozan, and ^ein the cities of the Medes.