2 Raja-raja 18:9-12

18:9 In the fourth year of King Hezekiah’s reign (it was the seventh year of the reign of Israel’s King Hoshea, son of Elah), King Shalmaneser of Assyria marched ¹  up against Samaria ²  and besieged it. 18:10 After three years he captured it (in the sixth year of Hezekiah’s reign); in the ninth year of King Hoshea’s reign over Israel Samaria was captured. 18:11 The king of Assyria deported the people of Israel ³  to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes. 18:12 This happened because they did not obey ⁴  the Lord their God and broke his agreement with them. ⁵  They did not pay attention to and obey all that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded. ⁶ 

[18:9]  ¹ tn Heb “went” (also in v. 13).

[18:9]  ² map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[18:11]  ³ tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.

[18:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “listen to the voice of.”

[18:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “his covenant.”

[18:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “all that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded, and they did not listen and they did not act.”