The Fall of Samaria

⁶ In the ninth year of Hoshea,^(A) the king of Assyria captured Samaria. He deported^(B) the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, along the Habor (Gozan’s river), and in the cities of the Medes.^(C)

¹³ The Lord said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their bread—ceremonially unclean—among the nations where I will banish them.”^(A)