Shalmaneser lays siege for three years, until…

Shalmaneser lays siege for three years, until he breaks “the resistance of Shamara'in” (Samaria).

He dies shortly before the capture of the city, however, and is succeeded by Sargon II, who takes credit for the destruction of Samaria in 722 and the deportation, to Syria, of twenty seven thousand two hundred and ninety of its inhabitants.

What happened to Hoshea following the end of the kingdom of Israel, and when or where he died, is unknown.

The exiles become known to history as the ten lost tribes of Israel.