*In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began ||Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him. 3 Against him came up aShalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and †gave him ||presents. 4 *And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no ||present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison. 5 *Then bthe king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. 6 cIn the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and dcarried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them ein Halah and in Habor by the river of efGozan, and in the cities of the gMedes.

7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, iwhich had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, 8 And walked in the statutes kof the heathen, lwhom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel, and lof the kings of Israel, which they had made. 9 And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, mfrom the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. 10 nAnd they set them up †images and ogroves in every high hill, and under every green tree: 11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the Lord carried away before them; and wrought wicked things pto provoke the Lord to anger: 12 For they served qidols, rwhereof the Lord had said unto them, sYe shall not do this thing. 13 Yet the Lord ttestified against Israel, and against Judah, †by all the prophets, and by all uthe seers, saying, wTurn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you †by my servants the prophets. 14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but xhardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the Lord their God. 15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed yvanity, and zbecame vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord ahad charged them, that they should not do like them. 16 And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made them molten images, even btwo calves, and made ca grove, and worshipped dall the host of heaven, and served eBaal. 17 And fthey caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and gused divination and henchantments, and isold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, kto provoke him to anger. 18 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah lonly.