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Hosea 10:5-7
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Hosea 10:5-7
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5 The people who live in Samaria will be afraid.
They will worry about their image of a calf at Beth Aven.[a]
They will weep because it will go away from them.
The priests who serve the idol will cry too.
They know that an enemy will take away their great and beautiful idol.
6 Assyria's army will carry the idol away.[b]
It will be a gift to give honour to Assyria's great king.
Ephraim's people will feel ashamed.
They will be sorry that they trusted in their wooden idol.
7 The people of Samaria and their king will come to an end.[c]
They will be like a small stick that water carries away.
Footnotes
- 10:5 People worshipped a gold calf at Bethel. Hosea calls Bethel ‘Beth Aven’. Bethel means ‘House of God’ but Beth Aven means ‘House of wicked things’.
- 10:6 Assyria's army will take the idol away when they win the war.
- 10:7 King Hoshea of Israel was put in a prison in 723 BC. See 2 Kings 17:1-6.
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