2 Kings 17:5-7

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.

A Summary of Israel’s Sinful History

17:7 This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of 3  Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped 4  other gods;

1 tn Heb “went up against.”

2 tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.

3 tn Heb “and from under the hand of.” The words “freed them” are added in the translation for stylistic reasons.

4 tn Heb “feared.”