The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt.<n id="1" /> Hoshea had sent messengers to King So<n id="2" /> of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh<n id="1" /> day of the twelfth month,<n id="2" /> King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned<n id="3" /> King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him<n id="4" /> from prison.