Discovery Box2 Kings 17:6 
Context17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel 1 to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.
2 Kings 17:23-24
Context17:23 Finally 2 the Lord rejected Israel 3 just as he had warned he would do 4 through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.
17:24 The king of Assyria brought foreigners 5 from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the cities of Samaria 6 in place of the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.
2 Kings 17:30-31
Context17:30 The people from Babylon made Succoth Benoth, 7 the people from Cuth made Nergal, 8 the people from Hamath made Ashima, 9 17:31 the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, 10 and the Sepharvites burned their sons in the fire as an offering to Adrammelech and Anammelech, 11 the gods of Sepharvaim.
1 tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.
2 tn Heb “until.”
3 tn Heb “the
4 tn Heb “just as he said.”
5 tn The object is supplied in the translation.
6 sn In vv. 24-29 Samaria stands for the entire northern kingdom of Israel.
7 sn No deity is known by the name Succoth Benoth in extant Mesopotamian literature. For speculation as to the identity of this deity, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 211.
8 sn Nergal was a Mesopotamian god of the underworld.
9 sn This deity is unknown in extra-biblical literature. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 211-12.
10 sn Nibhaz and Tartak were two Elamite deities. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 212.
11 sn Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of the Sepharvaim are unknown in extra-biblical literature. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 212.
