2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Cross-reference
2 Kings 17:24 shows the aftermath — foreigners resettling Samaria, continuing the story from this verse.
2 Kings 17:23 summarizes the same event, stating Israel was removed as the Lord warned.
In 2 Kings 18:11, the exile to Assyria and specific locations (Halah, Habor, Gozan, Medes) are repeated verbatim.
In 2 Kings 18:10, the capture of Samaria is recounted with identical details—three-year siege, ninth year of Hoshea.
In 2 Kings 19:12, Gozan is again named among conquered cities by Assyria, reinforcing the historical reality of the deportation here.
2 Kings 19:17 admits Assyria has 'laid waste nations,' including Israel's fall recorded in this verse.
2 Kings 21:13 threatens Jerusalem with the 'measuring line of Samaria' — the same judgment that fell here.
2 Kings 18:34 lists Samaria among conquered cities, reinforcing the Assyrian conquest recorded here.
2 Kings 18:32 references Samaria's fall as a warning to Jerusalem, echoing this deportation.
2 Kings 15:29 recounts an earlier partial Assyrian deportation, setting the pattern for this final exile.
1 Chronicles 5:26 recounts the same deportation to Halah, Habor, and Gozan for the Transjordan tribes, confirming the event.
In Leviticus 26:32, the land's desolation is a covenant curse; the exile fulfills this warning for disobedience.
In Leviticus 26:33, scattering among the nations is a covenant curse; the Assyrian exile fulfills that judgment.
Amos 5:27 prophesies exile beyond Damascus—the Assyrian deportation fulfills this specific warning to Israel.
In Hosea 13:16, Samaria's desolation is prophesied—the exile and destruction fulfill this violent judgment.
In Hosea 1:9, 'Lo-ammi' ('not my people') foretells Israel's rejection; the exile enacts this judgment.
In Hosea 1:6, the name Lo-ruhamah ('no mercy') prophesies God's withdrawal of mercy, fulfilled by the exile here.
Isaiah 37:12 also mentions Gozan among destroyed lands, paralleling the Assyrian conquest that led to Israel's exile.
1 Kings 14:16 states God will give Israel up because of Jeroboam's sins—this exile is the judgment for that persistent sin.
In Leviticus 26:38, the covenant curse warns of perishing among the nations—fulfilled here as Israel is exiled to Assyria.
Deuteronomy 4:25-28 warned that idolatry would lead to scattering among peoples—exactly what happens when Samaria falls.
Deuteronomy 28:36 predicted the king and people would be taken to an unknown nation—Assyria fulfills this curse.
Deuteronomy 28:64 predicted scattering among all nations—the Assyrian exile begins this dispersion of Israel.
Deuteronomy 29:27 says the Lord would bring all covenant curses on the land—this exile is the outworking of that.
Deuteronomy 29:28 describes God uprooting Israel and throwing them into another land—directly depicted in this deportation.
Deuteronomy 30:18 warns of destruction and short life in the land—Israel's exile fulfills this curse of removal.
In 1 Kings 14:15, Ahijah prophesies Israel will be uprooted and scattered beyond the Euphrates—Assyria's exile exactly matches.
Amos 7:11 explicitly foretold 'Israel will certainly go from its land into exile' — fulfilled here.
Amos 6:14 predicted a nation afflicting Israel from Hamath to the Arabah — the Assyrian invasion that led to this exile.
Amos 7:17 also predicts exile from the land — the same event recorded in 2 Kings 17:6.
Micah 2:10 calls Israel to leave the land because of destruction — the Assyrian exile fulfills that word.
Hosea 9:3 says Ephraim will go to Assyria and eat unclean food — exactly what happens in this exile.
Micah 1:16 laments the exile of children — a prophetic call to mourn fulfilled by this deportation.
Hosea 1:4 prophesied God would end Israel's kingdom — fulfilled by this Assyrian exile.
Daniel 9:7 confesses that God drove Israel into all countries, including the Assyrian exile from 2 Kings 17:6.
Jeremiah 50:17 states that the king of Assyria devoured Israel, directly referencing the deportation event of 2 Kings 17:6.
In 2 Chronicles 32:13, Sennacherib boasts about Assyria's conquests, including the deportation of Israel referenced here.
Jeremiah 3:12 calls exiled Israel to return, offering mercy after the judgment depicted in 2 Kings 17:6.
Jeremiah 3:8 explicitly refers to God divorcing Israel for idolatry, the same spiritual cause behind the exile in 2 Kings 17:6.
Isaiah 37:18 acknowledges Assyria's devastation of all nations, including the deportation of Israel recounted in 2 Kings 17:6.
Isaiah 36:17 records the Assyrian Rabshakeh offering Judah a deportation similar to what Israel experienced in 2 Kings 17:6.
Isaiah 27:13 promises the regathering of those who perished in Assyria, reversing the exile described in 2 Kings 17:6.
Isaiah 17:3 prophesies the downfall of Ephraim, fulfilled when Assyria deported Israel in 2 Kings 17:6.
Isaiah 10:9 lists Samaria among cities conquered by Assyria, directly referencing the fall recorded here.
Isaiah 9:1 refers to the humiliation of Zebulun and Naphtali by Assyria, the same northern territories deported here.
Isaiah 8:4 foretells the plunder of Samaria by Assyria, which is exactly the event recorded here.
Isaiah 5:13 prophesies exile for lack of knowledge, fulfilled by the deportation to Assyria here.
1 Kings 16:24 records Omri buying Samaria—the city whose fall in 2 Kings 17:6 ends the northern kingdom.
In 1 Kings 8:46, Solomon prays that if Israel sins, they will be carried captive—this prayer is fulfilled here in their exile to Assyria.
Acts 2:9 lists regions like Media and Mesopotamia — where these exiles were taken, showing their descendants at Pentecost.
2 Chronicles 6:36 prays about capture in a far land, anticipating the exile that actually happened here.
1 Chronicles 5:22 records the earlier exile of Transjordan tribes, paralleling this later full deportation.
Psalm 44:11 laments being scattered among the nations, echoing the exile of Israel described here.
2 Chronicles 32:1 records Sennacherib's invasion of Judah, a later Assyrian attack from the same empire that deported Israel.