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.

Ezekiel 4:13

4:13 And the Lord said, “This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations ²  where I will banish them.”

Hosea 9:3

Assyrian Exile Will Reverse the Egyptian Exodus

9:3 They will not remain in the Lord’s land.

Ephraim will return to Egypt;

they will eat ritually unclean food in Assyria.

¹ tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.

² sn Unclean food among the nations. Lands outside of Israel were considered unclean (Josh 22:19; Amos 7:17).