Dict: smith - HOSHEA

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HOSHEA - H>@ - (salvation). The nineteenth, last and best king of Israel. He succeeded Pekah, whom he slew in a successful conspiracy, thereby fulfilling a prophecy of Isaiah. kjv@Isaiah:7:16) In the third year of his reign (B.C. 726) Shalmaneser cruelly stormed the strong caves of Beth-arbel, kjv@Hosea:8:14) and made cruel tributary, ( kjv@2Kings:17:3) for three years. At the end of this period Hoshea entered into a secret alliance with So, king, of Egypt, to throw off the Assyrian yoke. The alliance did him no good; it was revealed, to the court of Nineveh by the Assyrian party in Ephraim, and Hoshea was immediately seized as a rebellious vasal, shut up in prison, and apparently treated with the utmost indignity. kjv@Micah:5:1) Of the subsequent fortunes of Hoshea nothing is known. The son of Nun, i.e. Joshua, (32:44) and also in Numb 13:8 Though to there the Authorized Version has OSHEA. Shon of Azaziah, ( kjv@1Chronicles:27:20) like his great namesake, a man of Ephraim, ruler of his tribe in the time of King David. (B.C. 1019.) One of the heads of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah. kjv@Nehemiah:10:23) (B.C. 410.)