5. Hezekiah trusted in the lord, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before or after his time.
6. He remained faithful to the lord in everything, and he carefully obeyed all the commands the lord had given Moses.
7. So the lord was with him, and Hezekiah was successful in everything he did. He revolted against the king of Assyria and refused to pay him tribute.
8. He also conquered the Philistines as far distant as Gaza and its territory, from their smallest outpost to their largest walled city.
9. During the fourth year of Hezekiah’s reign, which was the seventh year of King Hoshea’s reign in Israel, King Shalmaneser of Assyria attacked the city of Samaria and began a siege against it.
10. Three years later, during the sixth year of King Hezekiah’s reign and the ninth year of King Hoshea’s reign in Israel, Samaria fell.
11. At that time the king of Assyria exiled the Israelites to Assyria and placed them in colonies in Halah, along the banks of the Habor River in Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.