10 And at the end of three years they took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is, (A)the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.

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11 (A)Then the king of Assyria carried Israel away captive to Assyria, and put them (B)in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

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thus says the Lord God:

(A)“It shall not stand,
Nor shall it come to pass.
(B)For the head of Syria is Damascus,
And the head of Damascus is Rezin.
Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be [a]broken,
So that it will not be a people.
The head of Ephraim is Samaria,
And the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son.
(C)If you will not believe,
Surely you shall not be established.” ’ ”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 7:8 Lit. shattered

Then the Lord said to him:

“Call his name Jezreel,
For in a little while
(A)I will avenge the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu,
(B)And bring an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.

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16 Samaria [a]is held guilty,
For she has (A)rebelled against her God.
They shall fall by the sword,
Their infants shall be dashed in pieces,
And their women with child (B)ripped open.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:16 LXX shall be disfigured

(A)The Lord God has sworn by His holiness:
“Behold, the days shall come upon you
When He will take you away (B)with fishhooks,
And your posterity with fishhooks.

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