2Ki 17:6-7, 22:13, 2Ch 28:6, 33:11, Isa 37:2-4, Jer 42:2 | 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

2 Kings 22:13

13 “Go, inquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found. For great is ^gthe wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us.”

2 Chronicles 28:6

6 For ^hPekah the son of Remaliah killed 120,000 from Judah in one day, all of them men of valor, because they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 33:11

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

Isaiah 37:2-4

2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet ^kIsaiah the son of Amoz. 3 They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a ^lday of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; ^mchildren have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth. 4 ⁿIt may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for ^othe remnant that is left.’”

Jeremiah 42:2

2 and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Let ^pour plea for mercy come before you, and ^qpray to the Lord your God for us, for all ^rthis remnant— ^sbecause we are left with but a few, as your eyes see us—