And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all.’”

for before the boy knows how to cry ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.”

and all the people will know, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart:

Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I have done to Samaria and her images?”

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the Lord.