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Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, ^(C1)Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it.

And at the end of three years they captured it; in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was ^(C1)the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was captured.

Then the king of Assyria led Israel into exile to Assyria, and put them in ^(C1)Halah and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

This happened because they ^(C1)did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, but violated His covenant, all that Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded; they would neither listen nor do it.