mkjv - 2Kings:17:1-6

mkjv@2Kings:17:1 @ In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, nine years.

mkjv@2Kings:17:2 @ And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not like the kings of Israel who were before him.

mkjv@2Kings:17:3 @ Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him. And Hoshea became his servant and gave him taxes.

mkjv@2Kings:17:4 @ And the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and had brought no taxes to the king of Assyria, as before, year by year. And the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.

mkjv@2Kings:17:5 @ And the king of Assyria went up into all the land. And he went up to Samaria and besieged it three years.

mkjv@2Kings:17:6 @ In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria. And he placed them in Halah, and in Habor [by] the river Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.