'from Mount Hor you shall mark out [your border] to the entrance of Hamath; then the direction of the border shall be toward Zedad;

When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had defeated all the army of Hadadezer,

[Is] not Calno like Carchemish? [Is] not Hamath like Arpad? [Is] not Samaria like Damascus?

Against Damascus. "Hamath and Arpad are shamed, For they have heard bad news. They are fainthearted; [There is] trouble on the sea; It cannot be quiet.

Then the king of Assyria brought [people] from Babylon, Cuthah, Ava, Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed [them] in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they took possession of Samaria and dwelt in its cities.

As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, Whose carved images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

As I have done to Samaria and her idols, Shall I not do also to Jerusalem and her idols?' "

Now the king of Assyria went throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria and besieged it for three years.

For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and they had feared other gods,

And at the end of three years they took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, that [is,] the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.

because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed His covenant [and] all that Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded; and they would neither hear nor do [them.]