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In the Hebrew version of 2 Kings, Assyria resettles the exiles of Israel in the cities of Media, but the Greek Septuagint translation places them in its mountains, likely due to misreading one of the Hebrew words.
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2 Kings 17:6
Hebrew Bible
5 The king of Assyria marched through the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years. 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes. 7 This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods;
LXX 2 Kings 17:6
Septuagint
5 The king of Assyria went up against all the land. He went up to Samaria and laid siege against it for three years. 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and exiled Israelites to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, at the Habor rivers in Gozan, and the mountains of the Medes. 7 It happened because the sons of Israel sinned against their Lord God, who led them up from the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. They feared other gods.
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Notes and References
... The list is repeated in 18:12 and, in a garbled form in 1 Chronicles 5:26, where the reference to the transfer of Trans-Jordanian exiles to these same locations during the days of Tiglath-pileser III seems anachronistic. The Septuagint reading Ore Medon is likely a phonically derived variant retroverted as hare maday, “mountains of Media,” for the Masoretic Text ʿare maday, “cities of Media,” also reflected in the anomalous haraʾ in 1 Chronicles 5:26. ...
Cogan, Mordechai and Hayim Tadmor
II Kings: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
(p. 197) Doubleday, 1988
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