## So...Halah...Habor...Gozan...Medes ##

(See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])

## year by year ##

"every year" (UDB)

## shut him up and bound him in prison ##

"put Hoshea in prison" (UDB)

## besieged it ##

put troops around the city in order to force it to surrender

## carried Israel away to Assyria ##

"took the Israelite people to Assyria" (UDB)