4 However, the king of As·syrʹi·a got to find conspiracy+ in Ho·sheʹa’s case, in that he had sent messengers to So the king of Egypt+ and did not bring the tribute up to the king of As·syrʹi·a as in former years. Hence the king of As·syrʹi·a shut him up and kept him bound in the house of detention.+

13 Furthermore, he took one of the royal seed+ and concluded* a covenant with him and brought him into an oath;+ and the foremost men of the land he took away,+