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16 For before the child knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land before whose two kings you are in dread will be deserted.(A)

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for before the child knows how to call ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away by the king of Assyria.”(A)

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39 And as for your little ones who you thought would become plunder, your children who today do not yet know right from wrong, they shall enter there; to them I will give it, and they shall take possession of it.(A)

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11 And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left and also many animals?”(A)

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Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of Damascus,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,[a]
because they have threshed Gilead
    with threshing sledges of iron.(A)
So I will send a fire on the house of Hazael,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.(B)
I will break the gate bars of Damascus
    and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven
and the one who holds the scepter from Beth-eden,
    and the people of Aram shall go into exile to Kir,
            says the Lord.(C)

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  1. 1.3 Heb cause it to return

Ephraim shall become a desolation
    in the day of punishment;
among the tribes of Israel
    I declare what is sure.(A)

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An Oracle concerning Damascus

17 An oracle concerning Damascus.

See, Damascus will cease to be a city
    and will become a heap of ruins.(A)
Her towns will be deserted forever;[a]
    they will be places for flocks,
    which will lie down, and no one will make them afraid.(B)
The fortress will disappear from Ephraim
    and the kingdom from Damascus,
and the remnant of Aram will be
    like the glory of the people of Israel,
            says the Lord of hosts.(C)

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  1. 17.2 Cn Compare Gk: Heb the cities of Aroer are deserted

11 So the Lord raised adversaries[a] against them
    and stirred up their enemies,(A)

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  1. 9.11 Cn: Heb the adversaries of Rezin

The king of Assyria listened to him; the king of Assyria marched up against Damascus and took it, carrying its people captive to Kir; then he killed Rezin.(A)

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29 In the days of King Pekah of Israel, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.(A) 30 Then Hoshea son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah son of Remaliah, attacked him, and killed him; he reigned in place of him, in the twentieth year of Jotham son of Uzziah.

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