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And Hoshea, the son of Elah, conspired against Pekah, the son of Remaliah, and struck him down and killed him, and reigned in his place in the twentieth year of Jotham, the son of Uzziah (Hebr. Uzzijahos).
[Hosea (Hebr. Hoshea) becomes the last king of Israel.]
In the twelfth year of Ahaz, king of Judah, Hosea, son of Elah, began to reign in Samaria and reigned over Israel nine years.
Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came up against him, and Hosea became his servant and brought him gifts.
And the king of Assyria found (discovered) a conspiracy in Hos, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and did not offer gifts to the king of Assyria as he had done year after year. Therefore, the king of Assyria silenced him and bound him in prison.
In the ninth year of Hosea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor, by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
[Hezekiah reigned over Judah (the Southern Kingdom) for 29 years (726-697 BC).]
In the third year of the reign of Hoshea, son of Elah, in Israel, Hezekiah, son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign.
And it came to pass in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, that Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came up against Samaria and besieged it.
At the end of the third year [of the siege of the city], in the sixth year of Hezekiah's reign and the ninth year of Hoshea's reign as king of Israel, Samaria was captured.
