(A)They shall not[a] return to the land of Egypt,
    but (B)Assyria shall be their king,
    (C)because (D)they have refused to return to me.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 11:5 Or surely

16 They (A)return, but not upward;[a]
    they are (B)like a treacherous bow;
their princes shall fall by the sword
    because of (C)the insolence of their tongue.
This shall be their derision (D)in the land of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 7:16 Or to the Most High

13 As for my sacrificial offerings,
    (A)they sacrifice meat and eat it,
    but the Lord does not accept them.
(B)Now he will remember their iniquity
    and punish their sins;
    (C)they shall return 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

They shall not remain in (A)the land of the Lord,
    but (B)Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
    and (C)they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

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13 Yet the Lord (A)warned Israel and Judah (B)by every prophet (C)and every seer, saying, (D)“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, (E)but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God.

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(A)Do not be like your fathers, (B)to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, (C)Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But (D)they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord. Your fathers, where are they? And (E)the prophets, do they live forever? (F)But my words and my statutes, which I commanded (G)my servants the prophets, did they not (H)overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, (I)‘As the Lord of hosts purposed to deal with us for (J)our ways and (K)deeds, so has he dealt with us.’”

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27 (A)and I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the Lord, whose name is (B)the God of hosts.

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so two or three cities (A)would wander to another city
    to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
(B)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

(C)“I struck you with blight and mildew;
    your many gardens and your vineyards,
    your fig trees and your olive trees (D)the locust devoured;
(E)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

10 “I sent among you a pestilence (F)after the manner of Egypt;
    I killed your young men with the sword,
and (G)carried away your horses,[a]
    and (H)I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
(I)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 4:10 Hebrew along with the captivity of your horses

Israel Has Not Returned to the Lord

“I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
    and (A)lack of bread in all your places,
(B)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

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For behold, they are going away from destruction;
    but (A)Egypt shall gather them;
    Memphis shall bury them.
Nettles shall possess (B)their precious things of silver;
    (C)thorns shall be in their tents.

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Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant

“Come, let us (A)return to the Lord;
    for (B)he has torn us, that he may heal us;
    he has struck us down, and (C)he will bind us up.

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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

Sin and Treachery

“You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord:
(A)When men fall, do they not rise again?
    If one turns away, does he not return?
Why then has this people (B)turned away
    in perpetual (C)backsliding?
(D)They hold fast to deceit;
    they refuse to return.
(E)I have paid attention and listened,
    but they have not spoken rightly;
no man relents of his evil,
    saying, ‘What have I done?’
Everyone turns to his own course,
    (F)like a horse plunging headlong into battle.

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“Because this people has refused the waters of (A)Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice over (B)Rezin and the son of Remaliah, therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them (C)the waters of (D)the River,[a] mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it (E)will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks, and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, (F)reaching even to the neck, and its (G)outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, (H)O Immanuel.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 8:7 That is, the Euphrates

11 The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria and put them in (A)Halah, and on the (B)Habor, (C)the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, 12 because they did not obey the voice of the Lord their God but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded. They neither listened nor obeyed.

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(A)Against him came up (B)Shalmaneser king of Assyria. And Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute. But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison. Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria, and for three years he besieged it.

The Fall of Israel

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria (C)captured Samaria, (D)and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria (E)and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of (F)Gozan, and in the cities of (G)the Medes.

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29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel, (A)Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured (B)Ijon, (C)Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, (D)Kedesh, (E)Hazor, Gilead, and (F)Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.

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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

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