Salmanazar, King of Assyria, learning that Hosea had made himself
king of Israel, which country he considered tributary to his power,
and wished to shake off the yoke, besieged Samaria, and carried it by
assault after a blockade of three years. Hosea was made prisoner, and
carried away, with the greater part of his subjects, into Assyria. Thus
ended the kingdom of Israel, or of the ten tribes.