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And the king of Assyria went up into all the land, and he went up to Samaria and besieged it three years.

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and removed Israel to Assyria, and made them live in Halah, and in Habor, by the river Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

And it was so because the sons of Israel had sinned against Jehovah their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and feared other gods,

and walked in the statutes of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from the face of the sons of Israel, and of the kings of Israel that they made.

And the sons of Israel secretly did the things which were not right against Jehovah their God, and built high places for themselves in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city,

and set up for themselves pillars and Asherahs on every high hill, and under every green tree;

and burned incense there in all high places, like the nations that Jehovah had removed from their face; and did evil things to provoke Jehovah,

and served the idols, of which Jehovah had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

And Jehovah testified against Israel, and against Judah, by the hand of all His prophets, and every seer, saying, Turn back from your evil ways, and keep My commands, My statutes, according to all the Law that I commanded your fathers, andthat I sent to you by the hand of My servants the prophets.

And they did not listen, and hardened their necks, like the necks of their fathers, who did not remain faithful to Jehovah their God.

And they rejected His statutes and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against them, and went after the vain thing, and became vain, and afterthe nations that were around them,of whom Jehovah had commanded them not to do like them.

And they left all the commands of Jehovah their God and made for themselves casted images, two calves, and made an Asherah, and bowed to all the host of the heavens, and served Baal,

and caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire and divined, and used incantations, and sold themselves to do the evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke Him,

so that Jehovah was very angry against Israel, and turned them away from His face; not one was left, only the tribe of Judah by itself.

Also Judah did not keep the commands of Jehovah their God, and they walked in the statutes of Israel that they had made.

And Jehovah rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and gave them into the hand of the plunderers, until He had cast them out from His presence.

For He tore Israel from the house of David, and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king; and Jeroboam lured Israel from following Jehovah, and caused them to sin a great sin.

And the sons of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam that he did; they did not turn aside from them;

until Jehovah turned away Israel from His face, as He spoke by the hand of all His servants the prophets; and Israel was exiled from off its land to Assyria to this day.