^19 (A)Pul, the king of Assyria, came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a ^[a]thousand talents of silver so that his hand might be with him to ^(B)strengthen the ^[b]kingdom ^[c]under his rule.

²⁹ In the days of Pekah king of Israel, ^[a](A)Tiglath-pileser the king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and ^(B)he led ^[b]their populations into exile to Assyria.

^3 (A)Shalmaneser the king of Assyria marched ^(B)against him, and Hoshea became his servant and paid him tribute. ⁴ But the king of Assyria uncovered a conspiracy by Hoshea, who had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and had then brought no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; so the king of Assyria arrested him and confined him in prison.

⁵ Then the king of Assyria invaded the entire land, and went up to ^(C)Samaria and besieged it for three years.

Israel Captive

⁶ In the ninth year of Hoshea, ^(D)the king of Assyria captured Samaria and ^(E)led the people of Israel into exile to Assyria, and ^(F)settled them in Halah and Habor, on the river of ^(G)Gozan, and ^(H)in the cities of the Medes.

² they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers’ households, and said to them, “Let us build with you, for like you, we seek your God; ^(A)and we have been sacrificing to Him since the days of ^(B)Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here.”

¹⁰ and the rest of the nations which the great and honorable ^[a]Osnappar deported and settled in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the region beyond the Euphrates River. ^(A)And now