2 Kings 17:6
17:6 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 17:18
17:18 So the Lord was furious 2 with Israel and rejected them; 3 only the tribe of Judah was left.
2 Kings 17:23
17:23 Finally
4 the
Lord rejected Israel
5 just as he had warned he would do
6 through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.
1 tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.
2 tn Heb “very angry.”
3 tn Heb “turned them away from his face.”
4 tn Heb “until.”
5 tn Heb “the Lord turned Israel away from his face.”
6 tn Heb “just as he said.”