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

11 Ephraim is like a dove,
    (A)silly and without sense,
    calling to (B)Egypt, going to (C)Assyria.

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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

For (A)they have gone up to Assyria,
    (B)a wild donkey wandering alone;
    Ephraim has hired lovers.

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12 “For thus says the Lord:
(A)Your hurt is incurable,
    (B)and your wound is grievous.

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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

14 (A)All your lovers have forgotten you;
    they care nothing for you;
for I have dealt you the blow of (B)an enemy,
    the punishment (C)of a merciless foe,
because your guilt is great,
    (D)because your sins are flagrant.
15 (E)Why do you cry out over your hurt?
    (F)Your pain is incurable.
Because your guilt is great,
    (G)because your sins are flagrant,
    I have done these things to you.

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(A)For her wound is incurable,
    and it has come to Judah;
it has reached to the gate of my people,
    to Jerusalem.

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(A)Assyria shall not save us;
    (B)we will not ride on horses;
and (C)we will say no more, ‘Our God,’
    to the work of our hands.
(D)In you the orphan finds mercy.”

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20 So (A)Tiglath-pileser[a] king of Assyria came against him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him. 21 (B)For Ahaz took a portion from the house of the Lord and the house of the king and of the princes, and gave tribute to the king of Assyria, but it did not help him.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 28:20 Hebrew Tilgath-pilneser

16 (A)At that time King Ahaz sent to the king[a] of Assyria for help. 17 For the Edomites had again invaded and defeated Judah and carried away captives. 18 (B)And the Philistines had made raids on (C)the cities in the Shephelah and the Negeb of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco (D)with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages. And they settled there.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 28:16 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate (compare 2 Kings 16:7); Hebrew kings

(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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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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