742 – 740 BC evil reign start to finish in time of Prophet Hosea.
21Now the rest of the acts of Menahem and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 22And Menahem slept with his fathers, and Pekahiah his son became king in his place.
23In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah son of Menahem became king over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years. 24He did evil in the sight of YHVH; he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he made Israel sin.