Shomron shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her Elohim: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hizkiyah-yahu, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Yisrael, that Shalmaneser king of Ashur came up against Shomron, and besieged it.
And the king of Ashur found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Ashur, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Ashur shut him up, and bound him in prison.