Even in the third year of Asa king of Yehudah did Ba`sha kill him, and reigned in his place.
Hosea 7:7 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They are all hot as an oven and devour their judges; all their kings are fallen; there is none among them who calls to Me. American Standard Version (1901) They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me. Common English Bible All of them are hot as an oven; they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen; none of them call upon me. Catholic Public Domain Version They have all become hot like an oven, and they have devoured their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one who calls to me among them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They were all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings have fallen: there is none amongst them that calleth unto me. |
Even in the third year of Asa king of Yehudah did Ba`sha kill him, and reigned in his place.
It happened, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the castle of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died,
But the people who followed `Omri 1 prevailed against the people who followed Tivni the son of Ginat: so Tivni died, and `Omri 1 reigned.
He said, Take them alive. They took them alive, and killed them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.
It happened, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and killed them, even seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Yizre`el.
Shallum the son of Yavesh conspired against him, and struck him before the people, and killed him, and reigned in his place.
Menachem the son of Gadi went up from Tirtzah, and came to Shomron, and struck Shallum the son of Yavesh in Shomron, and killed him, and reigned in his place.
Pekach the son of Remalyahu, his captain, conspired against him, and struck him in Shomron, in the castle of the king's house, with Argov and Arye; and with him were fifty men of the Gil`adi: and he killed him, and reigned in his place.
Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekach the son of Remalyahu, and struck him, and killed him, and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Yotam the son of `Uzziyah.
Yehu drew his bow with his full strength, and struck Yoram between his arms; and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.
He said, Throw her down. So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trod her under foot.
*But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don't cry for help when he binds them.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on the LORD?
Yet you have not called on me, Ya`akov; but you have been weary of me, Yisra'el.
For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.
For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hid your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought the LORD of Armies.
I sought for a man among them, who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.
As it is written in the Torah of Moshe, all this evil is come on us: yet have we not entreated the favor of the LORD our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in your truth.
Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, 'Give me a king and princes?'
I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.*
The pride of Yisra'el testifies to his face; yet they haven't returned to the LORD their God, nor sought him, for all this.
They haven't cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.
They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn't approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.