¹³ They are wild waves of the sea,^(A) foaming up their shame;^(B) wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.^(C)

⁴ But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was a traitor, for he had sent envoys to So^[a] king of Egypt,^(A) and he no longer paid tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore Shalmaneser seized him and put him in prison.^(B)

³⁰ Then Hoshea^(A) son of Elah conspired against Pekah son of Remaliah. He attacked and assassinated^(B) him, and then succeeded him as king in the twentieth year of Jotham son of Uzziah.

³ But the angel^(A) of the Lord said to Elijah^(B) the Tishbite, “Go up and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel^(C) that you are going off to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?’

Naboth’s Vineyard

21 Some time later there was an incident involving a vineyard belonging to Naboth^(A) the Jezreelite. The vineyard was in Jezreel,^(B) close to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.