10 And at the end of three years they took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is, (A)the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.

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10 At the end of three years the Assyrians took it. So Samaria was captured in Hezekiah’s sixth year, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel.

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11 (A)Then the king of Assyria carried Israel away captive to Assyria, and put them (B)in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

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11 The king(A) of Assyria deported Israel to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River and in towns of the Medes.(B)

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thus says the Lord God:

(A)“It shall not stand,
Nor shall it come to pass.
(B)For the head of Syria is Damascus,
And the head of Damascus is Rezin.
Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be [a]broken,
So that it will not be a people.
The head of Ephraim is Samaria,
And the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son.
(C)If you will not believe,
Surely you shall not be established.” ’ ”

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  1. Isaiah 7:8 Lit. shattered

Yet this is what the Sovereign Lord says:(A)

“‘It will not take place,
    it will not happen,(B)
for the head of Aram is Damascus,(C)
    and the head of Damascus is only Rezin.(D)
Within sixty-five years
    Ephraim will be too shattered(E) to be a people.
The head of Ephraim is Samaria,(F)
    and the head of Samaria is only Remaliah’s son.
If you do not stand(G) firm in your faith,(H)
    you will not stand at all.’”(I)

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Then the Lord said to him:

“Call his name Jezreel,
For in a little while
(A)I will avenge the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu,
(B)And bring an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.

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Then the Lord said to Hosea, “Call him Jezreel,(A) because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.

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16 Samaria [a]is held guilty,
For she has (A)rebelled against her God.
They shall fall by the sword,
Their infants shall be dashed in pieces,
And their women with child (B)ripped open.

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  1. Hosea 13:16 LXX shall be disfigured

16 The people of Samaria(A) must bear their guilt,(B)
    because they have rebelled(C) against their God.
They will fall by the sword;(D)
    their little ones will be dashed(E) to the ground,
    their pregnant women(F) ripped open.”[a]

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  1. Hosea 13:16 In Hebrew texts this verse (13:16) is numbered 14:1.

(A)The Lord God has sworn by His holiness:
“Behold, the days shall come upon you
When He will take you away (B)with fishhooks,
And your posterity with fishhooks.

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The Sovereign Lord has sworn by his holiness:
    “The time(A) will surely come
when you will be taken away(B) with hooks,(C)
    the last of you with fishhooks.[a]

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  1. Amos 4:2 Or away in baskets, / the last of you in fish baskets