⁶ In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria^(A) captured Samaria^(B) and deported^(C) the Israelites to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, in Gozan^(D) on the Habor River and in the towns of the Medes.

³¹ and Darius^(A) the Mede^(B) took over the kingdom, at the age of sixty-two.^[a]