In the twelfth year of Achaz king of Juda, Osee the son of Ela reigned in Samaria, over Israel, nine years.

A.

3274 B.C.

730
In the twelfth
In ch.

2 Kings 15:30 Now Osee, son of Ela, conspired, and formed a plot against Phacee, the son of Romelia, and struck him, and slew him: and reigned in his stead in the twentieth year of Joatham, the son of Ozias.

, this is said to be `the twentieth year of Jotham,' which Calmet thus reconciles: `Hosea conspired against Pekah, the

20th year of the reign of this prince, which was the

18th of Jotham, king of Judah. Two years after this, that is, the

4th of Ahaz and the

20th of Jotham, Hosea made himself master of a part of the kingdom, according to ch.

2 Kings 15:30 Now Osee, son of Ela, conspired, and formed a plot against Phacee, the son of Romelia, and struck him, and slew him: and reigned in his stead in the twentieth year of Joatham, the son of Ozias.

Finally, the

12th year of Ahaz, Hosea had peaceable possession of the whole kingdom, agreeably to ch

2 Kings 17:1 In the twelfth year of Achaz king of Juda, Osee the son of Ela reigned in Samaria, over Israel, nine years.

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Hoshea.

2 Kings 15:30 Now Osee, son of Ela, conspired, and formed a plot against Phacee, the son of Romelia, and struck him, and slew him: and reigned in his stead in the twentieth year of Joatham, the son of Ozias.

2 Kings 18:9 In the fourth year of king Ezechias, which was the seventh year of Osee, the son of Ela, king of Israel, Salmanasar, king of the Assyrians, came up to Samaria, and besieged it,