3. He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, according to everything that David his father had done.
4. He removed the high places, broke down the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and crushed the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the children of Israel had made offerings to it. They called it Nehushtan.
5. He trusted in the Lord God of Israel. Afterwards, there was no one like him among all the kings of Judah or among those who were before him.
6. He clung to the Lord. He did not depart from following him, but kept His commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.
7. The Lord was with him. Wherever he went, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.
8. He struck the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from watchtower to fortified city.
9. In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it.
10. He seized it at the end of three years. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is, the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
11. Then the king of Assyria exiled Israel to Assyria and put them in Halah and in Habor by the River of Gozan and in the cities of the Medes,