2 Kings 17:1-5 - Hoshea Reigns In Israel
1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz the king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, [reigning] nine years. 2 He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, only not as the kings of Israel who were before him.
3 Shalmaneser the king of Assyria came up against him, and Hoshea became his vassal and paid tribute to him. 4 But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and he did not offer tribute to the king of Assyria as [he had] year after year; so the king of Assyria arrested him, and confined him [in] a house of imprisonment. 5 So the king of Assyria went up in all the land, then he went up [to] Samaria and besieged it [for] three years.