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^(C1)Shalmaneser the king of Assyria marched ^(C2)against him, and Hoshea became his servant and paid him tribute.

But the king of Assyria uncovered a conspiracy by Hoshea, who had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and had then brought no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; so the king of Assyria arrested him and confined him in prison.

Then the king of Assyria invaded the entire land, and went up to ^(C1)Samaria and besieged it for three years.

In the ninth year of Hoshea, ^(C1)the king of Assyria captured Samaria and ^(C2)led the people of Israel into exile to Assyria, and ^(C3)settled them in Halah and Habor, on the river of ^(C4)Gozan, and ^(C5)in the cities of the Medes.

Now ^(C1)this came about because the sons of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, ^(C2)who had brought them up from the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; ^(C3)and they had ^(F1)feared other gods.