^19 (A)Pul, king of Assyria, came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver so that his hand might be with him to ^(B)strengthen the kingdom ^[a]under his rule.

²⁹ In the days of Pekah king of Israel, ^[a](A)Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and ^[b]captured Ijon and Abel-beth-maacah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and ^(B)he carried them captive to Assyria.

^3 (A)Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up ^(B)against him, and Hoshea became his servant and paid him tribute. ⁴ But the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea, who had sent messengers to So king of Egypt and had offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; so the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.

⁵ Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land and went up to ^(C)Samaria and besieged it three years.

Israel Captive

⁶ In the ninth year of Hoshea, ^(D)the king of Assyria captured Samaria and ^(E)carried Israel away into exile to Assyria, and ^(F)settled them in Halah and Habor, on the river of ^(G)Gozan, and ^(H)in the cities of the Medes.

² they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers’ households, and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we, like you, seek your God; ^(A)and we have been sacrificing to Him since the days of ^(B)Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here.”

¹⁰ and the rest of the nations which the great and honorable ^[a]Osnappar deported and settled in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the region beyond the ^[b]River. ^(A)Now