2 Kings 17:5-8

17:5 The king of Assyria marched through ¹  the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years. 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel ²  to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.

A Summary of Israel’s Sinful History

17:7 This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of ³  Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped ⁴  other gods; 17:8 they observed the practices ⁵  of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before Israel, and followed the example of the kings of Israel. ⁶ 

[17:5]  ¹ tn Heb “went up against.”

[17:6]  ² tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.

[17:7]  ³ tn Heb “and from under the hand of.” The words “freed them” are added in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[17:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “feared.”

[17:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “walked in the customs.”

[17:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “and [the practices of] the kings of Israel which they did.”