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2 Kings 17:5-7
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2 Kings 17:5-7
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Israel Carried Away to Assyria
5 Then the king of Assyria came against all the land. He went up to Samaria and kept soldiers around it for three years. 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria in battle, and took the people of Israel away to Assyria. He had them live in Halah and Habor, by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
7 This happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God. He had brought them up from the land of Egypt from under the power of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. But they worshiped other gods.
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