2 Kings 17:4-6
17:4 The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt. 1 Hoshea had sent messengers to King So 2 of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him. 3
17:5 The king of Assyria marched through 4 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 5 to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.
1 tn Heb “and the king of Assyria found in Hoshea conspiracy.”
2 sn For discussion of this name, see HALOT 744 s.v. סוֹא and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 196.
3 tn Heb “and bound him in the house of confinement.”
4 tn Heb “went up against.”
5 tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.