Forsooth in the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyrians took Samaria, and translated or brought over Israel into Assyrians; and he put them in Halah, and in Habor, beside the flood [of] Gozan, in the cities of Medes.
Now therefore, if it seemeth good to the king, reckon he in the biblet or library of the king, which is in Babylon, whether it be commanded of king Cyrus, that God’s house should be builded in Jerusalem; and send he to us the will of the king on this thing.