⁹ the chief city of Ephraim is Samaria,
and the chief of Samaria is the son of Remaliah.
If you do not stand firm in your faith,
then you will not stand at all.

¹⁴ Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria^(A)
and say, “As your god lives, Dan,”^(B)
or, “As the way^[a][b] of Beer-sheba lives”^(C)—
they will fall, never to rise again.^(D)