2Ki 17:3-6 | NASB1995 | STEP | Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him, and Hoshea became his servant and paid him tribute .

2 Kings 17:3-6

3 ^aShalmaneser king of Assyria came up ^bagainst him, and Hoshea became his servant and paid him tribute. 4 But the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea, who had sent messengers to So king of Egypt and had offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; so the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.

5 Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land and went up to ^cSamaria and besieged it three years.

Israel Captive

6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, ^dthe king of Assyria captured Samaria and ^ecarried Israel away into exile to Assyria, and ^fsettled them in Halah and Habor, on the river of ^gGozan, and ^hin the cities of the Medes.