The fortress disappears from Ephraim, and a kingdom from Damascus. The remnant of Aram will be like the splendour of the Israelites. This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.
for before the boy knows how to call “Father”, or “Mother”, the wealth of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria will be carried off to the king of Assyria.’
Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As your god lives, Dan,’ or, ‘As the way , of Beer-sheba lives’ – they will fall, never to rise again.
the roar of battle will rise against your people, and all your fortifications will be demolished in a day of war, like Shalman’s destruction of Beth-arbel. Mothers will be dashed to pieces along with their children.
She conceived again and gave birth to a daughter, and the Lord said to him: Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel. I will certainly take them away.
Then the Lord said to him: Name him Jezreel, , for in a little while I will bring the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu and put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
And now the Lord says, ‘In three years, as a hired worker counts years, Moab’s splendour will become an object of contempt, in spite of a very large population. And those who are left will be few and weak.’
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria. He deported the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, along the Habor (Gozan’s river), and in the cities of the Medes.
For you have turned the city into a pile of rocks, a fortified city into ruins; the fortress of barbarians is no longer a city; it will never be rebuilt.