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13 “But you have cultivated wickedness and raised a thriving crop of sins. You have earned the full reward of trusting in a lie—believing that military might and great armies can make a nation safe!

14 “Therefore, the terrors of war shall rise among your people, and all your forts will fall, just as at Beth-arbel, which Shalman[a] destroyed; even mothers and children were dashed to death there. 15 That will be your fate, too, you people of Israel, because of your great wickedness. In one morning the king of Israel shall be destroyed.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 10:14 Shalman: probably Salaman, king of Moab, who invaded Gilead around 740 B.C.

13 But you have planted wickedness,
    you have reaped evil,(A)
    you have eaten the fruit of deception.(B)
Because you have depended on your own strength
    and on your many warriors,(C)
14 the roar of battle will rise against your people,
    so that all your fortresses will be devastated(D)
as Shalman(E) devastated Beth Arbel on the day of battle,
    when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children.(F)
15 So will it happen to you, Bethel,
    because your wickedness is great.
When that day dawns,
    the king of Israel will be completely destroyed.(G)

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