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Isa. 17:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts.

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Isa. 7:8,16• ⁸for the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years shall Ephraim be broken, so as to be no more a people;
¹⁶For before the child knoweth to refuse the evil and to choose the good, the land whose two kings thou fearest shall be forsaken. (Isa. 7:8,16)

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Isa. 8:4• ⁴For before the lad knoweth to cry, My father! and, My mother! the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria. (Isa. 8:4)

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Isa. 10:9• ⁹Is not Calno as Karkemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus? (Isa. 10:9)

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2 Kings 16:9• ⁹And the king of Assyria hearkened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried it captive to Kir, and put Rezin to death. (2 Kings 16:9)

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2 Kings 17:6• ⁶In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. (2 Kings 17:6)

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Hos. 1:4,6• ⁴And Jehovah said unto him, Call his name Jizreel; for yet a little, and I will visit the blood of Jizreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.
⁶And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And he said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah; for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel, so that I should pardon them. (Hos. 1:4,6)

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Hos. 3:4• ⁴For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without statue, and without ephod and teraphim. (Hos. 3:4)

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Hos. 5:13‑14• ¹³When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his sore, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb; but he was unable to heal you, nor hath he removed your sore.
¹⁴For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah. I, I will tear and go away; I will carry off, and there shall be none to deliver. (Hos. 5:13‑14)

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Hos. 8:8• ⁸Israel is swallowed up: now are they become among the nations as a vessel wherein is no pleasure. (Hos. 8:8)

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Hos. 9:16‑17• ¹⁶Ephraim is smitten: their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit; yea, though they should bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb.
¹⁷My God hath rejected them, because they hearkened not unto him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations. (Hos. 9:16‑17)

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Hos. 10:14• ¹⁴And a tumult shall arise among thy peoples, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces with the children. (Hos. 10:14)

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Hos. 13:7‑8,15‑16• ⁷And I will be unto them as a lion; as a leopard I will lurk for them by the way;
⁸I will meet them as a bear bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the covering of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lioness: the beast of the field shall tear them.
¹⁵Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, a wind of Jehovah that cometh up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
¹⁶Samaria shall bear her guilt; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up. (Hos. 13:7‑8,15‑16)

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Amos 2:6‑9• ⁶Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;
⁷panting after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turning aside the way of the meek; and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name.
⁸And they lay themselves down by every altar upon clothes taken in pledge, and they drink in the house of their God the wine of the condemned.
⁹But I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was as the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; but I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. (Amos 2:6‑9)

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Amos 3:9‑15• ⁹Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great uproar in the midst thereof, and the oppressions that are within her:
¹⁰and they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who store up violence and plunder in their palaces.
¹¹Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An adversary!--even round about the land! And he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be pillaged.
¹²Thus saith Jehovah: Like as the shepherd rescueth out of the jaw of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be rescued that sit in Samaria in the corner of a couch, and upon the damask of a bed.
¹³Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord Jehovah, the God of hosts,
¹⁴that in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him, I will also punish the altars of Bethel; and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.
¹⁵And I will smite the winter-house with the summer-house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and many houses shall have an end, saith Jehovah. (Amos 3:9‑15)

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Amos 5:25‑27• ²⁵Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and oblations in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
²⁶Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of your Moloch, and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye had made to yourselves;
²⁷and I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts. (Amos 5:25‑27)

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Amos 6:7‑11• ⁷Therefore shall they now go captive, with the first that go captive, and the revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass away.
⁸The Lord Jehovah hath sworn by himself, saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, I abhor the pride of Jacob, and hate his palaces; and I will deliver up the city with all that is therein.
⁹And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
¹⁰And a man's uncle, and he that should burn him, shall take him up to bring out the bones from the house, and shall say unto him that is in the inner parts of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, None. And he will say, Silence! for we may not make mention of Jehovah's name.
¹¹For behold, Jehovah commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts. (Amos 6:7‑11)

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Amos 8:14• ¹⁴they that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, As thy god, O Dan, liveth! and, As the way of Beer-sheba liveth! even they shall fall, and never rise up again. (Amos 8:14)

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Amos 9:1‑10• ¹I saw the Lord standing upon the altar; and he said, Smite the chapiter that the thresholds may shake; and break all of them in pieces, in the head; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not get away by flight, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.
²Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to the heavens, thence will I bring them down;
³and though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there will I command the serpent, and it shall bite them;
⁴and though they go into captivity before their enemies, there will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
⁵And the Lord Jehovah of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it melteth, and all that dwell therein shall mourn; and it shall wholly rise up like the Nile, and sink down as the river of Egypt.
⁶It is he that buildeth his upper chambers in the heavens, and hath founded his vault upon the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah is his name.
⁷Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith Jehovah. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
⁸Behold, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth: only that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith Jehovah.
⁹For behold, I command, and I will shake the house of Israel to and fro among all the nations, like as one shaketh corn in a sieve; yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
¹⁰All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, Evil shall not overtake nor befall us. (Amos 9:1‑10)

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Mic. 1:4‑9• ⁴And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters poured down a steep place.
⁵For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. Whence is the transgression of Jacob? is it not from Samaria? And whence are the high places of Judah? are they not from Jerusalem?
⁶Therefore will I make Samaria as a heap of the field, as plantings of a vineyard; and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will lay bare the foundations thereof.
⁷And all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, and all her harlot-gifts shall be burned with fire, and all her idols will I make a desolation; for of the hire of a harlot hath she gathered them, and to a harlot's hire shall they return.
⁸For this will I lament, and I will howl; I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.
⁹For her wounds are incurable; for it is come even unto Judah, it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem. (Mic. 1:4‑9)

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Isa. 16:14• ¹⁴And now Jehovah speaketh saying, Within three years, as the years of a hired servant, and the glory of Moab shall be brought to nothing, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be small, few, of no account. (Isa. 16:14)

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Isa. 28:1‑4• ¹Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious adornment, which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are overcome with wine.
²Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, as a storm of hail and a destroying tempest; as a storm of mighty waters overflowing, shall he cast down to the earth with might.
³The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under feet;
⁴and the fading flower of his glorious adornment which is on the head of the fat valley shall be like an early fig before the summer: as soon as he that seeth it perceiveth it, scarcely is it in his hand, he swalloweth it down. (Isa. 28:1‑4)

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Hos. 9:11• ¹¹As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away as a bird,--no birth, no pregnancy, no conception! (Hos. 9:11)

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The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith Jehovah of hosts.