¹⁶ The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, ^(A)you are about to ^[a]lie down with your fathers; and ^(B)this people will arise and play the prostitute with the foreign gods of the land into the midst of which they are going, and ^(C)they will abandon Me and break My covenant which I have made with them. ^17 (D)Then My anger will be kindled against them on that day, and ^(E)I will abandon them and ^(F)hide My face from them, and they will be consumed, and many evils and troubles will find them; so they will say on that day, ‘^(G)Is it not because our God is not among us that these evils have found us?’

^3 (A)Shalmaneser the king of Assyria marched ^(B)against him, and Hoshea became his servant and paid him tribute. ⁴ But the king of Assyria uncovered a conspiracy by Hoshea, who had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and had then brought no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; so the king of Assyria arrested him and confined him in prison.