Hosea 10:7
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Samaria will be carried off with her king like a twig on the surface of the water.”
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BSBPD
“Samaria will be carried off with her king like a twig on the surface of the water.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“As for Samaria, her king is cut off, as foam upon the water.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Cut off is Samaria! Its king <FI>is<Fi> as a chip on the face of the waters.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Hosea 10:7 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 21:1Some time later, Naboth the Jezreelite happened to own a vineyard in Jezreel next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
- 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 that you are on your way to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?’
- 2 Kings 15:30Then Hoshea son of Elah led a conspiracy against Pekah son of Remaliah. In the twentieth year of Jotham son of Uzziah, Hoshea attacked Pekah, killed him, and reigned in his place.
- 2 Kings 17:4But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea had conspired to send envoys to King So of Egypt, and that he had not paid tribute to the king of Assyria as in previous years. Therefore the king of Assyria arrested Hoshea and put him in prison.
- 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?”
- Hosea 10:15Thus 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.
- Hosea 13:11So in My anger I gave you a king, and in My wrath I took him away.
- 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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