2 Kings 17:6

Context
17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel¹ to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.

2 Kings 17:23-24

Context
17:23 Finally² the Lord rejected Israel³ just as he had warned he would do⁴ through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.

The King of Assyria Populates Israel with Foreigners

17:24 The king of Assyria brought foreigners⁵ from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the cities of Samaria⁶ in place of the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.

2 Kings 17:30-31

Context
17:30 The people from Babylon made Succoth Benoth,⁷ the people from Cuth made Nergal,⁸ the people from Hamath made Ashima,⁹ 17:31 the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak,¹⁰ and the Sepharvites burned their sons in the fire as an offering to Adrammelech and Anammelech,¹¹ the gods of Sepharvaim.

[17:6] ¹tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.

[17:23] ²tn Heb “until.”

[17:23] ³tn Heb “the Lord turned Israel away from his face.”

[17:23] ⁴tn Heb “just as he said.”

[17:24] ⁵tn The object is supplied in the translation.

[17:24] ⁶sn In vv. 24-29 Samaria stands for the entire northern kingdom of Israel.

[17:30] ⁷sn No deity is known by the name Succoth Benoth in extant Mesopotamian literature. For speculation as to the identity of this deity, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 211.

[17:30] ⁸sn Nergal was a Mesopotamian god of the underworld.

[17:30] ⁹sn This deity is unknown in extra-biblical literature. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 211-12.

[17:31] ¹⁰sn Nibhaz and Tartak were two Elamite deities. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 212.

[17:31] ¹¹sn Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of the Sepharvaim are unknown in extra-biblical literature. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 212.