KJV King James Version
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
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2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.
WEB World English Bible
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
ASV American Standard Version
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away unto Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
in the ninth year of Hoshea hath the king of Asshur captured Samaria, and removeth Israel to Asshur, and causeth them to dwell in Halah, and in Habor, by the river Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Surrounding context — 2 Kings 17
3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.
4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as [he had done] year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
7 For [so] it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
9 And the children of Israel did secretly [those] things that [were] not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
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בִּשְׁנַ֨תH8141 · sha.nehyearהַתְּשִׁיעִ֜יתH8671 · te.shi.ininthלְהוֹשֵׁ֗עַH1954 · ho.she.aHosheaלָכַ֤דH3920 · la.khadto captureמֶֽלֶךְ־H4428 · me.lekhkingאַשּׁוּר֙H804 · ash.shurAssyriaאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]שֹׁ֣מְר֔וֹןH8111 · sho.me.ronSamariaוַיֶּ֥גֶלH1540 · ga.lahHeglamאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelאַשּׁ֑וּרָהH804 · ash.shurAssyriaוַיֹּ֨שֶׁבH3427 · ya.shavto dwellאֹתָ֜םH853 · et[Obj.]בַּחְלַ֧חH2477 · cha.lachHalahוּבְחָב֛וֹרH2249 · cha.vorHaborנְהַ֥רH5104 · na.harRiverגּוֹזָ֖ןH1470 · go.zanGozanוְעָרֵ֥יH5892 · irexcitementמָדָֽי׃ פH4074 · ma.dayMadai
Cross-references
Hosea 13:16Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.1 Chronicles 5:26And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.Deuteronomy 28:64And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, [even] wood and stone.Leviticus 26:32-33And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.Isaiah 21:2A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.2 Kings 18:10-11And at the end of three years they took it: [even] in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that [is] the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.Deuteronomy 28:36The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.Isaiah 13:17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and [as for] gold, they shall not delight in it.Amos 5:27Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name [is] The God of hosts.Deuteronomy 29:27-28And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:Deuteronomy 4:25-28When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt [yourselves], and make a graven image, [or] the likeness of any [thing], and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:Leviticus 26:38And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.1 Kings 14:15-16For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.Deuteronomy 30:18I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, [and that] ye shall not prolong [your] days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.Isaiah 37:12-13Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which [were] in Telassar?2 Kings 19:12Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which [were] in Thelasar?Hosea 1:6And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And [God] said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.Hosea 1:9Then said [God], Call his name Loammi: for ye [are] not my people, and I will not be your [God].
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