6. For he clung to the Lord; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the Lord had commanded Moses.
7. And the Lord was with him; wherever he went he prospered. And he rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.
8. He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from watchtower to fortified city.
9. Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it.
10. At the end of three years they captured it; in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was captured.
11. Then the king of Assyria carried Israel away into exile to Assyria, and put them in Halah and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,
12. because they did not obey the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed His covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded; they would neither listen nor do it.