Hoshea: King of Israel: Last King of Israel

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.

In the fourth year of Hezekiah’s reign, which was the seventh year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it. …

Surely now they will say, “We have no king, for we do not revere the LORD. What can a king do for us?”

Samaria will be carried off with her king like a twig on the surface of the water.