"Now the king of Assyria went throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria and besieged it for three years. In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes." vv.5-6
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There are a couple different deportations and captivities till all of Judah and Israel are in captivity. Here we read of the a siege around Samaria for three years. Samaria was the capitol of the Northern Kingdom (Israel). A siege is "the act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place insuch a way as to isolate it from help and supplies, for the purpose oflessening the resistance of the defenders and thereby making capture possible" (dictionary.com). So after the siege of weakening Israel, Assryria takes them way captive and places them into another land and takes over Samaria as their own. Not only those in the capitol but those also of the surrounding 10 tribes that made up the Northern Kingdom. This no doubt took a couple deportations as to the strongest ones first leaving the weaker ones till later as we'll continue to read about through Kings. Reading through the rest of the chapter is this from the Lord and why/why not?
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