2 Kings 17:5-7

New King James Version

Israel Carried Captive to Assyria^(A)

⁵ Now ^(B)the king of Assyria went throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria and besieged it for three years. ^6 (C)In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and ^(D)carried Israel away to Assyria, ^(E)and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

⁷ For ^(F)so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and they had ^(G)feared other gods,