Assyria Resettles Samaria

^24 (A)Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, ^(B)Ava, Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they took possession of Samaria and dwelt in its cities.

³⁷ Now it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch his god, that his sons ^(A)Adrammelech and Sharezer ^(B)struck him down with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Then ^(C)Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.