Hosea 10:14 Cross References - NSB

¹⁴ Tumult will come to your people and all your fortresses will be destroyed. It will be like the day when King Shalman destroyed the city of Betharbel (house of Arbel) in battle and mothers and their children were crushed to death.

¹¹ »Save me from the hand of Esau, my brother. I fear that he will attack me and kill both mothers and children.

¹⁶ They broke all the laws of Jehovah their God. They made two metal bull-calves to worship. They also made an image of the goddess Asherah. Also they worshiped the stars and served the god Baal.

⁹ It was the fourth year of King Hezekiah, the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel. Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and laid siege to it. ¹⁰ It was captured at the end of three years. Samaria was taken in the sixth year of Hezekiah's rule, which was the ninth year of Hoshea, king of Israel.

³³ »Did the gods of other nations save their countries from the king of Assyria?

¹¹ »‘You heard what the kings of Assyria did to all countries. They totally destroyed them. Will you be rescued? ¹² »‘Did the gods of the nations that my ancestors destroyed rescue Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar? ¹³ »‘Where is the king of Hamath? Where is the king of Arpad? And where is the king of the cities of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’«

¹⁶ »Their infant children will be dashed to pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be plundered and their wives raped. ¹⁷ »I will stir up the Medes against them. They will not value silver or take pleasure in gold. ¹⁸ »And their bows will mow down the young men. They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb. Nor will they have compassion on children.

³ »The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom (sovereignty) from Damascus. The remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the children of Israel, proclaims Jehovah of Hosts.

¹ What troubles you now that you have all gone up on the roof? ² You are a town full of commotion, a city of tumult and revelry. The sword did not kill your slain, nor did they die in battle. ³ All your leaders have fled together. They have been captured without using the bow. All you who were caught were taken prisoner together. You fled while the enemy was still far away. ⁴ I said: »Turn away from me. Let me weep bitterly. Do not try to console me over the destruction of my people.«

¹⁴ The sinners in Zion are terrified. The godless tremble. Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with long lasting fire?

¹⁴ »‘»I will dash them against each other, both the fathers and the sons together, declares Jehovah. ‘I will not show pity nor be sorry nor have compassion so as not to destroy them.«’«

⁴¹ »The towns of Moab will be captured. The strong walled cities will be defeated. Then Moab’s warriors will be frightened like a woman who is giving birth.’«

⁸ »The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Jehovah has spoken! Who will not prophesy?«

⁵ »For the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, is he who touches the land and it melts. All who live there will mourn. It will rise up like the River Nile, and will subside again, like the River of Egypt.

¹⁶ »The people of Samaria are guilty as charged because they rebelled against their God. They will be killed in war, their children will be smashed to death, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.«

¹⁰ »She went into captivity and was exiled. Her children were smashed to death at every street corner. Soldiers tossed dice for her important men, and all her best men were bound in chains.

¹² »All your defenses will be like fig trees with the ripe figs. When shaken, the figs fall into the mouth of the eater.

¹⁰ »They scoff at kings, and princes are derision to them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they build earthen ramps and capture them.