1
In the twelfth year of Achaz king of Yehudah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Shomron over Yisra'el, [and reigned] nine years.
2
He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, yet not as the kings of Yisra'el who were before him.
3
Against him came up Shalman'eser king of Ashshur; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute.
4
The king of Ashshur found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Mitzrayim, and offered no tribute to the king of Ashshur, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Ashshur shut him up, and bound him in prison.
5
Then the king of Ashshur came up throughout all the land, and went up to Shomron, and besieged it three years.
6
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Ashshur took Shomron, and carried Yisra'el away to Ashshur, and placed them in Halach, and on the Havor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Madai.
7
It was so, because the children of Yisra'el had sinned against the LORD their God, who brought them up out of the land of Mitzrayim from under the hand of Par`oh king of Mitzrayim, and had feared other gods,