2 Kings 17:6-7

6In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

7And so it was, because the children of Israel had sinned against Jehovah their 1God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other 2gods;