18:10 After three years he captured it (in the sixth year of Hezekiah’s reign); in the ninth year of King Hoshea’s reign over Israel Samaria was captured.
18:11 The king of Assyria 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.
18:12 This happened because they did not obey 2 the Lord their God and broke his agreement with them. 3 They did not pay attention to and obey all that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded. 4
1 tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.
2 tnHeb “listen to the voice of.”
3 tnHeb “his covenant.”
4 tnHeb “all that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded, and they did not listen and they did not act.”