9 And the people of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things that were not right. Exile Because of Idolatryħ And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, ( F)who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods 8 ( G)and walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel, ( H)and in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced. 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria ( A)captured Samaria, ( B)and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria ( C)and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of ( D)Gozan, and in the cities of ( E)the Medes.