Shalmaneser was the king of Assyria who conquered the Northern Kingdom of Israel and captured its last king, Hoshea (King of Israel).
2 Kings 17:4Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.2 Kings 17:5In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria) took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.2 Kings 17:6It was so because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt) from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
2 Kings 18:9At the end of three years they took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.2 Kings 18:10The king of Assyria) carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,2 Kings 18:11because they didn’t obey Yahweh their God’s voice, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded, and would not hear it or do it.2 Kings 18:12Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.