2Ki 17:6-7 | ESV | STEP | In the ninth year of Hoshea , the king of Assyria captured Samaria , and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah , and on the Habor , the river of Gozan , and in the cities of the Medes .

2 Kings 17:6-7

The Fall of Israel

6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria ^acaptured Samaria, ^band he carried the Israelites away to Assyria ^cand placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of ^dGozan, and in the cities of ^ethe Medes.

Exile Because of Idolatry

7 And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, ^fwho had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods