2 Kings 17:6-8

6In the ninth year of Hoshea, 1the king of Assyria captured Samaria and 2carried Israel away into exile to Assyria, and 3settled them in Halah and Habor, on the river of 4Gozan, and 5in the cities of the Medes.

7Now 6this came about because the sons of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, 7who had brought them up from the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, 8and they had 9feared other gods 8and 10walked in the 11customs of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the sons of Israel, and in the customs 12of the kings of Israel which they had 13introduced.