2 Kings 17:3
Context17:3 King Shalmaneser of Assyria threatened 1 him; Hoshea became his subject and paid him tribute.
2 Kings 15:30
Context15:30 Hoshea son of Elah conspired against Pekah son of Remaliah. He assassinated him 2 and took his place as king, in the twentieth year of the reign of Jotham son of Uzziah.
2 Kings 17:1
Context17:1 In the twelfth year of King Ahaz’s reign over Judah, Hoshea son of Elah became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria 3 for nine years.
2 Kings 18:1
Context18:1 In the third year of the reign of Israel’s King Hoshea son of Elah, Ahaz’s son Hezekiah became king over Judah.
2 Kings 18:10
Context18:10 After three years he captured it (in the sixth year of Hezekiah’s reign); in the ninth year of King Hoshea’s reign over Israel Samaria was captured.
2 Kings 17:4
Context17:4 The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt. 4 Hoshea had sent messengers to King So 5 of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him. 6
2 Kings 17:6
Context17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel 7 to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.
2 Kings 18:9
Context18:9 In the fourth year of King Hezekiah’s reign (it was the seventh year of the reign of Israel’s King Hoshea, son of Elah), King Shalmaneser of Assyria marched 8 up against Samaria 9 and besieged it.


[17:3] 1 tn Heb “went up against.”
[15:30] 2 tn Heb “and struck him down and killed him.”
[17:1] 3 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
[17:4] 4 tn Heb “and the king of Assyria found in Hoshea conspiracy.”
[17:4] 5 sn For discussion of this name, see HALOT 744 s.v. סוֹא and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 196.
[17:4] 6 tn Heb “and bound him in the house of confinement.”
[17:6] 5 tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.
[18:9] 6 tn Heb “went” (also in v. 13).
[18:9] 7 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.