5. And the king of Assyria overran the whole land, and went up against Samaria, and besieged it three years.
6. In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
7. And so it was, because the children of Israel had sinned against Jehovah their God who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods;
8. and they walked in the statutes of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.