The Fall of Samaria

In the ninth year of Hoshea,(A) the king of Assyria captured Samaria. He deported(B) the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah and by the Habor, Gozan’s river, and in the cities of the Medes.(C)

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In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria(A) captured Samaria(B) and deported(C) the Israelites to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, in Gozan(D) on the Habor River and in the towns of the Medes.

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11 for Amos has said this: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will certainly go into exile from its homeland.’”(A)

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11 For this is what Amos is saying:

“‘Jeroboam will die by the sword,
    and Israel will surely go into exile,(A)
    away from their native land.’”(B)

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17 Therefore, this is what the Lord says:

Your wife will be a prostitute in the city,(A)
your sons and daughters will fall by the sword,(B)
and your land will be divided up
with a measuring line.
You yourself will die on pagan[a] soil,(C)
and Israel will certainly go into exile(D)
from its homeland.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 7:17 Lit unclean

17 “Therefore this is what the Lord says:

“‘Your wife will become a prostitute(A) in the city,
    and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword.
Your land will be measured and divided up,
    and you yourself will die in a pagan[a] country.
And Israel will surely go into exile,(B)
    away from their native land.(C)’”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 7:17 Hebrew an unclean