⁶ In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria^(A) captured Samaria^(B) and deported^(C) the Israelites to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, in Gozan^(D) on the Habor River and in the towns of the Medes.

¹⁰ At that time the officers of Nebuchadnezzar^(A) king of Babylon advanced on Jerusalem and laid siege to it,

¹⁴ He carried all Jerusalem into exile:^(A) all the officers and fighting men,^(B) and all the skilled workers and artisans—a total of ten thousand. Only the poorest^(C) people of the land were left.