Discovery Box2 Kings 17:5-8 
Context17:5 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; 17:8 they observed the practices 5 of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before Israel, and followed the example of the kings of Israel. 6
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.”
5 tn Heb “walked in the customs.”
6 tn Heb “and [the practices of] the kings of Israel which they did.”
