29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel, hTiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he icarried the people captive to Assyria.
9 And the king of Assyria listened to him. cThe king of Assyria marched up against Damascus and took it, carrying its people captive to Kir, and he killed Rezin.
The Fall of Israel
6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he wcarried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Assyria Resettles Samaria
24 And the king of Assyria gbrought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the people of Israel. And they took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.
26 So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, the spirit of Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and he took them into exile, namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and rbrought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river Gozan, to this day.
