¶ Eia hoʻi kekahi mea ma hope mai o ia mau mea, he māla waina iā Nabota no Iezereʻela, ma loko ia o Iezereʻela, e pili ana i ka hale aliʻi o ʻAhaba ke aliʻi o Samaria.
ʻŌlelo maila ka ʻānela o Iēhova iā ʻElia no Tiseba, “E kū, a hele aku e hālāwai me nā ʻelele o ke aliʻi o Samaria, a e ʻī aku iā lākou, ‘No ka nele anei o kā ʻIseraʻela i ke Akua, no laila hele ai ʻoukou e nīnau iā Baʻala-Zebuba, ke akua o ʻEkerona?’
A kipi aʻela ʻo Hosea, ke keiki a ʻEla, iā Peka, ke keiki a Remalia, a pepehi akula iā ia, a noho aliʻi ihola ia ma kona wahi, i ka makahiki iwakālua o Iotama, ke keiki a ʻUzia.
A ʻike ihola ke aliʻi o ʻAsuria i ka manaʻo o Hosea e kipi; no ka mea, ua hoʻouna aku ia i nā ʻelele iā So, ke aliʻi o ʻAigupita, ʻaʻole hoʻi ia i hoʻokupu no ke aliʻi o ʻAsuria i kēlā makahiki kēia makahiki; no laila hoʻopaʻa akula ke aliʻi o ʻAsuria iā ia, a hahao iā ia i loko o ka hale paʻahao.
¶ ʻĀnō hoʻi, e ʻōlelo auaneʻi lākou, “ʻAʻohe o kākou aliʻi; No ka mea, ʻaʻole o kākou i makaʻu aku iā Iēhova; He aha ka mea a ke aliʻi e hana mai ai no kākou?”
A e hoʻopau ʻia nā heiau o ʻAvena, ka hewa o kā ʻIseraʻela; E kupu mai auaneʻi ka lāʻau kukū a me ka pua kala ma luna o ko lākou mau kuahu; A e ʻōlelo aku lākou i nā mauna, “E uhi mai iā mākou”; A i nā puʻu, “E hiolo mai ma luna o mākou.”
he mau ʻale o ke kai i kūpikipikiʻō, ke huahuaʻi aʻela i ko lākou hilahila iho; nā hōkū lele hoʻi; ua hoʻomākaukau ʻia no lākou ka pōʻeleʻele o ka pouli mau loa.