Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 17:6

6 ¶ In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah▪ and in Habor, by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes .

This is added, to distinguish this place from the former, which was either in Assyria, or in the Mountainous and less inhabited parts of Media. Hither he carried them, partly to replenish his own Country; and partly, because these places were at so great a distance from Canaan, that this would cut off all hopes and thoughts of returning to their own Country.

Marginal references: Chap. 18. 10.