2Kings:17:5-7
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Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land ,
and went up to Samaria ,
and besieged it three years .
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In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria ,
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Israel away into Assyria ,
and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan ,
and in the cities of the Medes .
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For so it was ,
that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God ,
which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt ,
from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt ,
and had feared other gods ,