2 Raja-raja 17:4

Tetapi setelah lewat beberapa tahun, Hosea diam-diam mengirim pesan kepada Raja So di Mesir untuk meminta bantuannya melawan Asyur. Hosea juga berhenti membayar pajak tahunan tersebut. Ketika Salmaneser mengetahui hal itu, dia memerintahkan supaya Hosea ditangkap dan dipenjarakan.

And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.