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- In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign in Samaria over Israel, and he reigned nine years. And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him. Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria. And Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.
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Jan 4, 2022 · Hoshea was the last king of Israel before the nation’s destruction by Assyria. King Pekah had fought with the Assyrians but lost territory to Tiglath-Pileser, king of Assyria. So when Hoshea took the throne from Pekah, he was a vassal to Shalmaneser king of Assyria and was required to pay heavy tribute (2 Kings 17:3).
Hoshea, in the Old Testament (2 Kings 15:30; 17:1–6), son of Elah and last king of Israel ( c. 732–724 bc ). He became king through a conspiracy in which his predecessor, Pekah, was killed. The Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III claimed that he made Hoshea king, and Hoshea paid an annual tribute to him.
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Nov 17, 2023 · According to the historian Josephus, Hoshea was a friend of Pekah’s. Little did Hoshea know he’d bitten off far more than he could chew. At the time of Pekah, the kingdom of Samaria increasingly became a tribute vassal kingdom to Assyria. Assyria, and later Babylon, worked a lot like a mob.
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The Kingdom of Israel had reached the height of its power during the reign of Jeroboam II (c. 783), who succeeded in achieving independence from Syrian dominance and bringing the nation to a high degree of economic prosperity. However, this affluence gave rise to moral and spiritual corruption, to which the prophets Amos and Hoseaformed a nucleus o...
The son of an otherwise unknown man named Elah, Hoshea came to throne around 732 B.C.E. Hoshea's name in Hebrew, which means "the Lord's salvation," is the same as both the prophet Hosea and the Israelite commander Joshua, as well as the Christian Messiah, Jesusof Nazareth. The biblical version of Hoshea's becoming king is paralleled by a reference...
The last of the 19 kings of Israel, Hoshea is ironically considered by the biblical writers to be one of the better of the northern kings. Only Jehu, the pro-Yahweh usurper who ended the dynasty of Omri and Ahab, receives a better report; and he, too, does not escape criticism, for allowing the northern shrines of Bethel and Dan to operate in compe...
Becking, Bob. The Fall of Samaria: An Historical and Archaeological Study. Brill Academic Publishers, 1992. ISBN 9004096337Day, John. In Search of Pre-Exilic Israel: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 406. London: T & T Clark International, 2004. ISBN 978-0567082060Knapp, C. Kings of Israel. Dubuque, Iowa: ECS Ministries, 2004. ISBN 978-1593870096Williamson, H. G. M. Understanding the History of Ancient Israel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0197264010Oct 8, 2021 · Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria. And Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute. But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year.
Dec 9, 2023 · In 2 Kings 17:3-4, we find an account of Hoshea paying tribute to Shalmaneser, the king of Assyria. However, this allegiance did not endure, leading to dire consequences for the northern kingdom. “Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him; and Hoshea became his vassal, and paid him tribute money.
Thus, from the start Hoshea was a vassal of Assyria. Accordingly, the notice in ii Kings 17:3 that Shalmaneser v (727–722) came up against Hoshea is an indication that the death of Tiglath-Pileser had encouraged Hoshea to attempt to free himself of the Assyrian yoke.
