And now the Lord says, “In three years (the way a hired helper counts time) all those people and the things they are proud of will be gone. There will be a few people left, but there will not be many.”
Hosea 10:15 - Easy To Read Version And that will happen to you at Bethel. Why? Because you did so many evil things. \{When that day\} begins, the king of Israel will be fully destroyed.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So shall Beth-el do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So shall it be done to you at [idolatrous] Bethel because of your great wickedness; at daybreak shall the king of Israel be utterly cut off. American Standard Version (1901) So shall Beth-el do unto you because of your great wickedness: at daybreak shall the king of Israel be utterly cut off. Common English Bible It will indeed happen to you, Bethel, because of your great wickedness. At dawn, the king of Israel will be cut off completely. Catholic Public Domain Version So has Bethel done to you, before the face of your malicious wickedness. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version So hath Bethel done to you, because of the evil of your iniquities. |
And now the Lord says, “In three years (the way a hired helper counts time) all those people and the things they are proud of will be gone. There will be a few people left, but there will not be many.”
So your armies will hear the noise of battle. And all your fortresses {\cf2\super [112]} will be destroyed. It will be like the time Shalman {\cf2\super [113]} destroyed Beth Arbel. At that time of war, mothers were killed with their children.
Now the Israelites say, “We have no king. We don’t honor the Lord! And his king can’t do anything to us!”
The people from Samaria {\cf2\super [100]} worship the calves at Beth-Aven. {\cf2\super [101]} Those people will really cry. Those priests will really cry. Why? Because their beautiful \{idol\} is gone. It was carried away.
Samaria’s false god {\cf2\super [103]} will be destroyed. It will be like a piece of wood floating away on the water’s surface.
\{The Lord said,\}“I loved Israel when he was a child,\par and I called my son out of Egypt.\par
Does this mean that something that is good brought death to me? No! But sin used something that is good to bring death to me. This happened so that I could see what sin is really like. It happened to show that sin is something very, very bad. And the command was used to show this.