2. Captivity of Samaria....................... 17:5, 6
2Ki 17:5
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.2Ki 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.