“Oholah played the whore (A)while she was mine, and (B)she lusted after her lovers (C)the Assyrians, warriors

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13 When Ephraim saw his sickness,
    and Judah (A)his wound,
then Ephraim went (B)to Assyria,
    and sent to the great king.[a]
(C)But he is not able to cure you
    or heal (D)your wound.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 5:13 Or to King Jareb

(A)Against him came up (B)Shalmaneser king of Assyria. And Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.

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(A)So Ahaz sent messengers to (B)Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and rescue me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel, who are attacking me.”

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19 (A)Pul[a] the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave (B)Pul a thousand talents[b] of silver, that he might help him (C)to confirm his hold on the royal power.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 15:19 Another name for Tiglath-pileser III (compare verse 29)
  2. 2 Kings 15:19 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms

For (A)they have gone up to Assyria,
    (B)a wild donkey wandering alone;
    Ephraim has hired lovers.
10 Though they hire allies among the nations,
    I will soon gather them up.
And (C)the king and princes (D)shall soon writhe
    because of the tribute.

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28 (A)You played the whore also (B)with the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied.

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12 Ephraim feeds on the wind
    and pursues (A)the east wind all day long;
they multiply (B)falsehood and violence;
    (C)they make a covenant with Assyria,
    and (D)oil is carried to Egypt.

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(A)The thing itself shall be carried to Assyria
    as tribute to (B)the great king.[a]
Ephraim shall be put to shame,
    and Israel shall be ashamed (C)of his idol.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 10:6 Or to King Jareb
  2. Hosea 10:6 Or counsel

20 and lusted after her lovers there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses.

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16 When she saw them, she lusted after them and (A)sent messengers to them (B)in Chaldea.

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12 She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, (A)all of them desirable young men.

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Therefore (A)I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted.

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She bestowed her whoring upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them, and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone after whom she lusted.

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37 therefore, behold, (A)I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and (B)all those you hated. (C)I will gather them against you from every side (D)and will uncover your nakedness to them, that (E)they may see all your nakedness.

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38 (A)A drought against her waters,
    that they may be dried up!
(B)For it is a land of images,
    and they are mad over idols.

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Exile Because of Idolatry

And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, (A)who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods (B)and walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel, (C)and in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced. And the people of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, (D)from watchtower to fortified city. 10 They set up for themselves (E)pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, 11 and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger, 12 and they served idols, (F)of which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.” 13 Yet the Lord (G)warned Israel and Judah (H)by every prophet (I)and every seer, saying, (J)“Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”

14 But they would not listen, (K)but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God. 15 They despised his statutes (L)and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after (M)false idols (N)and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the (O)Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them. 16 And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of (P)two calves; and they (Q)made an Asherah and (R)worshiped all the host of heaven and served (S)Baal. 17 (T)And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings[a] and used (U)divination and (V)omens and (W)sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. 18 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but (X)the tribe of Judah only.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 17:17 Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire

26 He acted very abominably in going after (A)idols, as (B)the Amorites had done, whom the Lord cast out before the people of Israel.)

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31 And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, (A)he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the (B)Sidonians, (C)and went and served Baal and worshiped him. 32 He erected an altar for Baal in (D)the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria.

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30 It was for the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned and (A)that he made Israel to sin, and because of the anger to which he provoked the Lord, the God of Israel.

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26 He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord (A)and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin (B)which he made Israel to sin.

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16 And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and made Israel to sin.”

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but you have done evil above all who were before you and have gone and (A)made for yourself other gods and (B)metal images, provoking me to anger, and (C)have cast me behind your back,

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