2 Raja-raja 17:5-6

17:5 The king of Assyria marched through ¹  the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years. 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel ²  to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.

2 Raja-raja 17:23

17:23 Finally ³  the Lord rejected Israel ⁴  just as he had warned he would do ⁵  through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.

[17:5]  ¹ tn Heb “went up against.”

[17:6]  ² tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.

[17:23]  ³ tn Heb “until.”

[17:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “the Lord turned Israel away from his face.”

[17:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “just as he said.”