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== Accession ==

== Accession ==

Hoshea came to his throne by an act of murder<ref name=Britannica/><ref name=GeoCities>Authors unknown. "[http://www.geocities.com/thekingsofisrael/biography_Hoshea.html King Hoshea - Biography]." ''The Kings of Israel'', hosted at http://www.geocities.com/ Retrieved June 4, 2007.</ref><ref name=ISBE>Caldecott, W. Shaw. "[http://cf.blueletterbible.org/isbe/isbe.cfm?id=4449 Hoshea]." ''International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia''. Edited by James Orr. Blue Letter Bible. 1913. 5 May 2003. 4 Jun 2007.</ref><ref name=AAG>Authors unknown. "[http://www.allaboutgod.com/truth-topics/hoshea.htm Hoshea]." AllAboutGod.com. Retrieved June 4, 2007.</ref><ref name=Konig>George Konig, [http://www.aboutbibleprophecy.com/p108.htm Hoshea, King of Israel], AboutBibleProphecy.com, 2007. Retrieved June 4, 2007.</ref>--and the [[Assyria]]n king [[Tiglath-Pileser III]] boasts that he had a hand in the death of Hoshea's predecessor [[successor of::Pekah]] and the placement of Hoshea on the throne.<ref name=Britannica/><ref name=BibleHx>John Argubright. "[http://www.biblehistory.net/Hoshea.pdf King Hoshea]." ''[http://www.biblehistory.net/Bible_Believers_Archaeology.pdf Bible Believer's Archaeology, Vol. 1: Historical Evidence That Proves the Bible].'' BibleHistory.net, 2007. Retrieved June 4, 2007. Requires PDF reader.</ref> Tiglath-Pileser also says that Hoshea paid him an annual tribute<ref name=Britannica/> of ten [[talent]]s of [[gold]] and ten thousand talents of [[silver]].<ref name=BibleHx/> This is more than ten times the one-off tribute that King [[Menahem]] paid to King "Pul" (presumably [[Ashur-Dan III]]). This could be either a revisionist boast by Tiglath-Pileser, a record of a total amount of tribute paid to Tiglath-Pileser over a number of years, or a total valuation of the spoils that Tiglath-Pileser captured in his war against King Pekah.

Hoshea came to his throne by an act of murder<ref name=Britannica/><ref name=GeoCities>Authors unknown. "[http://www.geocities.com/thekingsofisrael/biography_Hoshea.html King Hoshea - Biography]." ''The Kings of Israel'', hosted at http://www.geocities.com/ Retrieved June 4, 2007.</ref><ref name=ISBE>Caldecott, W. Shaw. "[http://cf.blueletterbible.org/isbe/isbe.cfm?id=4449 Hoshea]." ''International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia''. Edited by James Orr. Blue Letter Bible. 1913. 5 May 2003. 4 Jun 2007.</ref><ref name=AAG>Authors unknown. "[http://www.allaboutgod.com/truth-topics/hoshea.htm Hoshea]." AllAboutGod.com. Retrieved June 4, 2007.</ref><ref name=Konig>George Konig, [http://www.aboutbibleprophecy.com/p108.htm Hoshea, King of Israel], AboutBibleProphecy.com, 2007. Retrieved June 4, 2007.</ref>--and the [[Assyria]]n king [[Tiglath-Pileser III]] boasts that he had a hand in the death of Hoshea's predecessor [[Pekah]] and the placement of Hoshea on the throne.<ref name=Britannica/><ref name=BibleHx>John Argubright. "[http://www.biblehistory.net/Hoshea.pdf King Hoshea]." ''[http://www.biblehistory.net/Bible_Believers_Archaeology.pdf Bible Believer's Archaeology, Vol. 1: Historical Evidence That Proves the Bible].'' BibleHistory.net, 2007. Retrieved June 4, 2007. Requires PDF reader.</ref> Tiglath-Pileser also says that Hoshea paid him an annual tribute<ref name=Britannica/> of ten [[talent]]s of [[gold]] and ten thousand talents of [[silver]].<ref name=BibleHx/> This is more than ten times the one-off tribute that King [[Menahem]] paid to King "Pul" (presumably [[Ashur-Dan III]]). This could be either a revisionist boast by Tiglath-Pileser, a record of a total amount of tribute paid to Tiglath-Pileser over a number of years, or a total valuation of the spoils that Tiglath-Pileser captured in his war against King Pekah.

[[James Ussher|Ussher]] states flatly that Hoshea deposed and killed Pekah in the fourth year of King [[Jehoahaz I|Ahaz]] of the [[Southern Kingdom]],<ref name=Ussher/><ref>{{Bible ref|book=II_Kings|chap=15|verses=30|version=NASB}}</ref> but that his reign did not really begin until eight to nine years later, in the ''twelfth'' year of Ahaz.<ref>{{Bible ref|book=II_Kings|chap=17|verses=1|version=NASB}}</ref> These nine years constituted the [[Pekah#Death, Interregnum, and Succession|Second Interregnum]] of the Northern Kingdom.<ref name=WebBible>Authors unknown. "[http://www.christiananswers.net/dictionary/hoshea.html Entry for Hoshea]." WebBible Encyclopedia. Retrieved June 4, 2007.</ref> [[Edwin R. Thiele|Thiele]] denies that any such interregnum took place.<ref name=Wood/>

[[James Ussher|Ussher]] states flatly that Hoshea deposed and killed Pekah in the fourth year of King [[Jehoahaz I|Ahaz]] of the [[Southern Kingdom]],<ref name=Ussher/><ref>{{Bible ref|book=II_Kings|chap=15|verses=30|version=NASB}}</ref> but that his reign did not really begin until eight to nine years later, in the ''twelfth'' year of Ahaz.<ref>{{Bible ref|book=II_Kings|chap=17|verses=1|version=NASB}}</ref> These nine years constituted the [[Pekah#Death, Interregnum, and Succession|Second Interregnum]] of the Northern Kingdom.<ref name=WebBible>Authors unknown. "[http://www.christiananswers.net/dictionary/hoshea.html Entry for Hoshea]." WebBible Encyclopedia. Retrieved June 4, 2007.</ref> [[Edwin R. Thiele|Thiele]] denies that any such interregnum took place.<ref name=Wood/>