In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Ashur took Shomron, and carried Yisra'el away to Ashur, and placed them in Chalach, and on the Chavor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Madai.
Go to Kalneh, and see; and from there go to Chamat the great; then go down to Gat of the Pelishtim. are they better than these kingdoms? or is their border greater than your border?