Hosea 10:7
Samaria will be carried off with her king like a twig on the surface of the water.
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ASV
As for Samaria, her king is cut off, as foam upon the water.
KJV
As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.
"He made his king pass like foam over the face of the water of Samaria, and the high places of idols shall be destroyed, the sin of Israel." LXX: "He has cast out his king from Samaria as a brand on the face of the water, and the altars will be removed." For "foam," which the LXX and Theodotion translated as φρύγανον, that is, "brand," Symmachus has placed ἐπίζεμα, wanting to show the upper waters of boiling water, and the foam and bubbles rising, which the Greeks call πομφόλυγας.
As for Samaria,.... The metropolis of the ten tribes of Israel, and here put for the whole kingdom: her king is cut off; which some understand of Pekah, who was killed by Hoshea; others of several of their kings cut off one after another, very suddenly and quickly, as the metaphor after used shows; or rather Hoshea the last king is meant, who was cut off by the king of Assyria; the present tense is used for the future, to denote the certainty of it.
(Ho 10:3, 15). foam--denoting short-lived existence and speedy dissolution. As the foam, though seeming to be eminent raised on the top of the water, yet has no solidity, such is the throne of Samaria. MAURER translates, "a chip" or broken branch that cannot resist the current.
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Jude 1:13They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
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These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck.
You stilled the roaring of the seas, the pounding of their waves, and the tumult of the nations.
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2 Kings 1:3But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel…
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Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in…
Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.
Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.
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Hosea 10:3Surely now they will say, “We have no king, for we do not revere the LORD. What can a king do for us?”
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Thus it will be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness. When the day dawns, the king of Israel will be utterly cut off.
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