Hoshea

730 BC – 721 BCHamiticDivided Kingdom

King of Israel, reigning 730–721 BC in the northern kingdom.

The facts

Dates	730 BC – 721 BC
Lineage band	Hamitic
Scripture	1-2 Kings
Era	Divided Kingdom
Source	Chart + scripture

Where this sits on the chart

Hoshea falls 3274 years out from Creation at the centre, inside the Divided Kingdom arc. On the printed chart you can put a finger here and read straight outward to see what the rest of the world was doing in the same moment.

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Who else was alive

The beginning of the Greek Archaic period750 BC Ahaz742 BC – 726 BC The prophetic ministry of Isaiah739 BC – 681 BC The Battle of Tours halts Islamic expansion in Western Europe732 BC Hezekiah726 BC – 698 BC HOSHEA 9722 BC The Assyrian conquest of Israel722 BC Fall of Samaria721 BC

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