2 Kings 17

Shalmaneser of Assyria besieges Samaria for three years and in the ninth year of Hoshea the city falls and Israel is exiled. The writer explains why: they feared other gods and would not listen to the prophets. Settlers from other lands are brought in to Samaria.

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