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.

¹⁶ for before the boy knows^(A) enough to reject the wrong and choose the right,^(B) the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.^(C)