5. So the king of Assyria went up in all the land, then he went up to Samaria and besieged it for three years.
6. In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported Israel to Assyria. He placed them in Halah, in Habor, in the river regions of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
7. Now this happened because the Israelites had sinned against Yahweh their God when he brought them up from the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh the king of Egypt and they feared other gods.
8. They walked in the statutes of the nations whom Yahweh had driven out from before the Israelites, which the kings of Israel had introduced.