2Ki 17:24, 2Ch 33:11, Ezr 4:2-3, 10 | ESV | STEP | And the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon , Cuthah , Avva , Hamath , and Sepharvaim , and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the people of Israel . And they took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities .

2 Kings 17:24

Assyria Resettles Samaria

24 ^aAnd the king of Assyria brought people from ^bBabylon, Cuthah, ^cAvva, ^dHamath, and ^eSepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the people of Israel. And they took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.

2 Chronicles 33:11

11 ^fTherefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and ^gbound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon.

Ezra 4:2-3

2 they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers’ houses and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we worship your God as you do, and we have been sacrificing to him ever ^hsince the days of ⁱEsarhaddon king of Assyria ^jwho brought us here.” 3 But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers’ houses in Israel said to them, ^k“You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we alone will build to the Lord, the God of Israel, ^las King Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”

Ezra 4:10

10 and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble ^mOsnappar deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River.