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 17:23
17:23 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.
1 tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.
2 tnHeb “until.”
3 tnHeb “the Lord turned Israel away from his face.”