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Now in the fourthyear of KingHezekiah, which was the seventhyear of Hosheason of Elahking of Israel, 1Shalmaneserking of Assyriacame up againstSamaria and besieged* it.
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At the end of threeyears they captured it; in the sixthyear of Hezekiah, which was 2the ninthyear of Hosheaking of Israel, Samaria was captured.
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Then the king of AssyriacarriedIsraelaway into exile to Assyria, and put them in 3Halah and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,
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because* they 4did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed His covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORDcommanded; they would neitherlistennordo it.