2 Kings 17:5-6
17:5 The king of Assyria marched through 1 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 2 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 The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.