2 Kings 17:3
17:3 King Shalmaneser of Assyria threatened 1 him; Hoshea became his subject and paid him tribute.
2 Kings 17:5-6
17:5 The king of Assyria marched through 2 the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years.
17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel 3 to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.
1 tn Heb “went up against.”
2 tn Heb “went up against.”
3 tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.