2 Kings 17:3-6 ▼

3 Shalmaneser [V] king of Assyria came up against him, and Hoshea became his servant and paid him tribute (money).

4 But the king of Assyria discovered a conspiracy in Hoshea, who sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; therefore the king of Assyria arrested him and bound him in prison.

5 Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land [of Israel] and went up to Samaria and besieged it for three years.

6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried [the people of] Israel into exile to Assyria, and settled them in Halah and in Habor, by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.