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5 Then the King of Affyria came up throughout all the Land, and went up to Samaria, and befieged it three Years.

6 In the ninth Year of Hofhea, the King of Affyria took Samaria, and carried Ifrael away into Affyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the River of Gozan, and in the Cities of the Medes.

7 For fo it was, that the Children of Ifrael had SINNED against the LORD their GOD, which had brought them up out of the Land of Egypt, from under the Hand of Pharaoh King of Egypt, and had feared other Gods,

8 And WALKED in the Statutes of the HEATHEN (whom the LORD caft out from before the Children of Ifrael) and of the Kings of Ifrael, which they

had made.

9 And the Children of Ifrael did fecretly thofe Things that were not right against the LORD their GOD, and they built them high Places in all their Cities, from the Tower of the Watchmen to the fenced City.

10 And they fet them up IMAGES and Groves in every high Hill, and under every green Tree.

11 And there they burnt INCENSE in all the high Places, as did the Heathen whom the LORD carried away before them, and wrought wicked

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the LORD, ye Children of Ifrael: for

the LORD hath a CONTROVERSY with the Inhabitants of the Land, because there is no TRUTH, nor MERCY, nor

KNOWLEDGE of GOD in the Land.

2 By SWEARING, and LYING, and KILLING, and STEALING, and committing ADULTERY, they break out,

and BLOOD toucheth Blood.

3 Therefore fhall the Land mourn, and every one that dwelleth fhall languish, with the Beafts of the Field, and with the Fowls of Heaven, yea,

the Fifhes of the Sea alfo shall be ta

ken away.

$ Therefore fhalt thou FALL in the Day, and the Prophet alfo fhall fall with thee in the Night, and I will deftroy thy Mother.

6 My People are DESTROYED for

lack of KNOWLEDGE: because thou haft REJECTED Knowledge, I will also REJECT thee, that thou shalt be no Priest to me: feeing thou haft forgotten the Law of thy God, I will alfo forget thy Children.

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9 And there fhall be LIKE PEOPLE, LIKE PRIEST and I will punish them for their Ways, and reward their DOINGS.

Hofea v. 1 Hear ye this, O PRIESTS, and hearken ye, House of ISRAEL,

and give ye ear, O House of the King: for Judgment is toward you.

3 I know Ephraim and Ifrael is not hid from me: for now, O E

phraim thou committeft Whoredom, and Ifrael is defiled.

s And the PRIDE of Ifrael doth teftify to his Face: therefore fhall Ifrael

and Ephraim FALL in their INIQUITY: JUDAH alfo fhall fall with them.

9 Ephraim fhall be DESOLATE in the Day of Rebuke: among the

Tribes of Ifrael have I made known

that which shall furely be.

13 When Ephraim faw his Sicknefs, and Judah faw his Wound, then went Ephraim to the Affyrian, and fent to King Jareb: yet could he not heal you

Ho ea vi. 4 O Ephraim, what fhall I do unto thee? O Judah, what fhall I do unto thee? for your Goodness is as a Morning Cloud, and as the early Dew it goeth away.

s Therefore have I hewed them Bbbb Things

Things to provoke the LORD to Anger.

12 For they ferved IDOLS, whereof the LORD had faid unto them, Ye fhall not do this Thing.

13 Yet the LORD TESTIFIED against Ifrael, and against Judah, by all the PROPHETS, and by all the Seers, faying, TURN ye from your evil Ways, and KEEP my COMMANDMENTS, and my Statutes, according to all the Law which I commanded your Fathers, and which I fent to you by my Servants the PRO

PHETS.

14 Notwithstanding, they

would not HEAR, but hardned their Necks, like to the Neck of their Fathers, that did not BELIEVE in the LORD their GOD.

15 And they REJECTED his Statutes, and his COVENANT that he made with their Fathers, and his Teftimonies which he teftified against them, and they followed VANITY, and became vain, and went after the HEATHEN that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had CHARGED them that they should not do like them.

16 And they LEFT all the COMMANDMENTS of the LORD their GOD, and made them molten Images, even TWO CALVES, and made a Grove, and worfhipped all

by the PROPHETS, I have flain them by the WORDS of my Mouth, and thy Judgments are as the Light that goeth forth.

6 For I defired MERCY, and not SACRIFICE; and the KNOWLEDGE of

GOD more than BURNT OFFERINGS.

9 As Troops of Robbers wait for a Man, fo the Company of PRIESTS murder in the way by Confent: for they commit Lewdnefs.

Holea vii. 1 When I would have healed ISRAEL, then the Iniquity of Ephraim was difcovered, and the WICKEDNESS OF SAMARIA: for they commit Falfhood: and the Thief cometh in, and the Troop of the Robbers Spoileth without.

2 And they confider not in their Hearts, that 1 remember all their Wickedness: now their own Doings have befet them about, they are before my Face.

3 They make the KING glad with their WICKEDNESS, and the PRINCES

with their LYES.

4 They are all ADULTERERS as an Oven heated.

9 STRANGERS have devoured his Strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, grey Hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

10 And the Pride of Ifrael teftifi

eth to his Face, and they do not RE TURN to the LORD their GOD, nor SEEK him for all this.

13 Wo unto them, for they have FLED from me: DESTRUCTION unto them, because they have TRANSGRESSED againft me: though I have RELYES against me. DEEMED them, yet they have spoken

14 And they have not CRIED unto me with their HEART, when they howled upon their Beds: they affemble themselves for Corn and Wine, and they REBEL against me.

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16 They return, but not to the MOST HIGH: they are like a deceitful Bow their Princes fhall fall by the Sword for the Rage of their Tongue: this fhall be their Derifion in the Land of Egypt.

Hofea viii. 3 Ifrael hath caft off the Thing that is GOOD: the Enemy shall puifue him.

4 They have fet up KINGS, but not by ME: they have made PRINCES,

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the Hoft of Heaven, and ferved BAAL.

17 And they caused their Sons and their Daughters to pafs through the FIRE, and

ufed Divination and Enchantments, and fold themselves to do Evil in the fight of the LORD, to provoke him to Anger.

18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Ifrael, and REMOVED them out of his fight there was none left but the Tribe of JUDAH only.

19 Alfo JUDAH kept not the COMMANDMENTS of the LORD their GOD, but walked in the Statutes of Ifrael which they made.

20 And the LORD REJECTED all the Seed of Ifrael, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the Hand of SPOILERS, until he had caft them out of his fight.

21 For he rent Ifrael from the House of DAVID, and they made Jeroboam the Son of Nebat King, and Jeroboam drave Ifrael from following the LORD, and made them SIN a great SIN.

22 For the Children of Ifrael walked in all the Sins of Jeroboam which he did, they departed not from them :

23 Until the LORD REMOVED Ifrael out of his fight, as he had faid by all his Servants the Prophets. So was Ifrael carried away out of

and I KNOW it not of their Silver and their Gold have they made them IDOLS, that they may be cut off.

s Thy CALF, O Samaria, hath caft thee off; mine Anger is kindled again them: how long will it be ere they attain to Innocency?

12 I have written to HIM the great Things of my Law, but they were counted as a STRANGE thing.

14 For Ifrael hath forgotten his Maker.

Hofea ix. 9 They have deeply corGibeah: therefore he will remember rupted themselves, as in the Days of their Iniquity, he will visit their Sins. Children, yet will I bereave them, 12 Though they bring up their that there fhall not be a Man left; yea, wo ALSO to them when I DEPART

from them.

15 For the WICKEDNESS of their

Doings I will DRIVE them out of mine House.

because they did not HEARKEN unto 17 My GOD will caft them away, him and they fhall be WANDERERS among the NATIONS

he bringeth forth Fruit unto himself: Hofea x. 1 Ifrael is an empty Vine, according to the multitude of his Fruit, he hath increafed the ALTARS; Land, they have made goodly Images. according to the Goodness of his

3 For now they fhall fay, We have no King, because we FEARED not the LORD, what then fhould a King do to us?

s The INHABITANTS of SAMARIA

fhall fear, because of the CALVES of Beth-aven: for the People thereof fhall mourn over it, and the Priests thereof that rejoyced on it, for the Glory thereof, because it is departed

from it.

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7 As for Samaria, her King is cut off as the Foam upon the Water.

8 The high Places alfo of Aven, the Sin of lfrael fhall be deftroyed: the Thorn and the Thistle fhall come fay to the MOUNTAINS, COVER US up on their Altars; and they fhall and to the HILLS, FALL ON US, their

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their own Land to Affyria unto this Day.

24 And the King of Affyria brought Men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the Cities of Samaria, instead of the Children of Ifrael; and they poffeffed Samaria, and dwelt in the Cities thereof.

25 And fo it was at the Beginning of their dwelling there, that they FEARED not the LORD; therefore the LORD fent LIONS amongst them, which flew fome of them.

26 Wherefore they fpake to the King of Affyria, faying, The Nations which thou haft removed, and placed in the Cities of Samaria, know not the Manner of the GOD of the Land therefore he hath fent Lions among them, and behold, they flay them, because they know not the Manner of the GoD of the Land.

27 Then the King of Affyria commanded, faying, Carry thither one of the Priefts whom ye brought from thence, and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the Manner of the GoD of the Land.

28 Then one of the Priests whom they had carried away from Samaria, came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them

14 A Tumult shall arise among thy People, and all thy Fortreffes fhall be fpoiled, as Shalman fpoiled Betharbel in the Day of Battle: the Mother was dashed in pieces upon her

Children.

Hofea xiii. 16 Samaria fhall become DESOLATE, for the hath REBELLED againft her GOD: they shall fall by dafhed in pieces, and their Women with child thall be ript up.

the Sword; their Infants fhall be

fhall underftand thefe Things? PRUHofea xiv. 9 Who is wise, and he DENT, and he fhall know them? for the Ways of the LORD are right, and the JUST fhall walk in them, but the TRANSGRESSORS fhall fall therein.

Levit. xxvi. 13 I am the LORD your GOD, which brought you forth out of the Land of Egypt, that ye fhould not be their Bond-men, and I have broken the Bands of your Yoke, and made you go upright.

14 But if ye will not hearken upto me, and will not do all these Commandments

Is And if ye fhall defpife my Statutes, or if your Soul abhor my Judg ments, fo that ye will not do all my Commandments, but that ye break my COVENANT,

29 Ye fhall eat the Flesh of your Sons, and the Flesh of your Daughters fhall ye eat.

30 And I will DESTROY your high Places, and cut down your IMAGES, and caft your Carcafes upon the Carcafes of your Idols, and my Soul thall

abhor you.

31 And I will make your CITIES WASTE, and bring your SANCTUARIES unto DESOLATION, and I will not fmell the Savour of your fweet Odours.

32 And I will bring the Land into DESOLATION: and your Enemies which dwell therein shall be aftonish

ed at it.

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how they should fear the LORD.

29 Howbeit, every Nation made Gods of their own, and put them into the Houfes of the high Places which the Samaritans had made, every Nation in their Cities wherein they dwelt.

30 And the Men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the Men of Cuth made Nergal, and the Men of Hamath made Ashima.

31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their Children in Fire to Adrammelech, and Anammelech, the Gods of Sepharvaim.

32 So they feared the LORD, and made unto themfelves of the loweft of them Priefts of the high Places.

33 They feared the LORD, and ferved their own Gods, after the Manner of the Nations whom they carried a way from thence.

34 Unto this Day they do after the former Manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their Statutes, or after their Ordinances, or after the Law and Commandment which the LORD commanded the Children of Jacob, whom he named Ifrael.

35 With whom the LORD had made a Covenant, and charged them, faying, Ye fhall not fear other Gols,

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47 Because thou SERVEDST not the LORD thy GOD with JOYFULNESS, and with GLADNESS of Heart, for the abundance of all Things.

48 Therefore fhalt thou SERVE thine ENEMIES, which the LORD fhall fend against thee, in Hunger, and in Thirst, and in Nakedness, and in Want of

all Things: and he fhall put a Yoke of Iron upon thy Neck, until he have deftroyed thee.

thy Gates, until thy high and fenced 52 And he fhall befiege thee in all Walls come down, wherein thou truft

edit, throughout all thy Land; and he fhall befiege thee in all thy Gates, throughout all thy Land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

64 And the LORD fhall SCATTER thee among all People from the one END of the EARTH even unto the other; and there thou shalt ferve other Gods, which neither thou nor thy Fathers have known, even Wood and Stone.

65 And among thefe Nations fhalt thou find no EASE, neither shall the SOLE of thy FOOT have REST: but the LORD fhall give thee there a trembling Heart, and Failing of Eyes, and Sorrow of Mind.

Hofea iii. 4 For the Children of IsRAEL fhall abide many Days, without a KING, and without a PRINCE, and

nor

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