Hosea 7:7 Cross References - NSB

⁷ »They are all as hot as an oven. They consume their rulers like a fire. All their kings die in battle, and none of them calls to me.

²⁸ In the third year of the rule of Asa, king of Judah, Baasha put him to death, and became king in his place.

⁹ His servant Zimri, commander of half his war-carriages made plans to kill him. He was in Tirzah, drinking hard at the house of Arza, controller of the king's house in Tirzah. ¹⁰ Zimri attacked and killed him. It was the twenty-seventh year that Asa was king of Judah. ¹¹ Immediately after he became king and took his place on the throne of the kingdom, he put to death all the family of Baasha. Not one male child survived.

¹⁸ Zimri saw that the city had fallen. So he went into the palace's inner fortress and set the palace on fire. He died in the flames.

²² But the half that followed Omri was stronger than the half that followed Tibni, Ginath's son. Tibni died and Omri became king.

²⁴ Jehu drew his bow with his full strength and sent an arrow, wounding Joram between the arms. The arrow came out at his heart, and he went down on his face in his chariot.

³³ He said: »Take her and throw her out the window.« So they threw her down with force. Her blood splattered on the wall and on the horses. She was crushed under their feet.

⁷ As soon as Jehu's letter arrived, the leaders of Samaria killed all seventy of Ahab's descendants and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.

¹⁴ He ordered: »Take them alive.« So they took them alive and then killed them at the cistern of the shearing house. He killed all forty-two of them.

¹⁰ Shallum, the son of Jabesh conspired against him. He attacked him in Ibleam and killed him. Shallum became king in his place.

¹⁴ Then Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah to Samaria. He attacked Shallum, son of Jabesh, in Samaria. He killed him and made himself king in his place.

²⁵ Pekah son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him. He attacked him in the king's great house in Samaria. Fifty men of Gilead were with him. He killed the king and became king in his place.

³⁰ Hoshea son of Elah conspired against Pekah son of Remaliah. He attacked him and killed him. He became king in his place. It was in the twentieth year of Jotham son of Uzziah king of Judah.

¹³ »The godless in heart harbor resentment. Even when he fetters them, they do not cry for help.

¹³ The people did not turn back to him who struck them, or seek Jehovah of Hosts.

²² »Jacob, you have not prayed to me. Israel, you have grown tired of me.

⁷ No one calls on your name or tries to hold on to you. You have hidden your face from us. You allowed us be ruined by our sins.

³⁰ ‘»I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.

¹⁵ »I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek me. They will seek me earnestly in their affliction.«

¹⁰ »Israel, your arrogance testifies against you. Even after all this, you do not return to Jehovah your God or look to him for help.

¹⁴ »And they do not cry to me from their heart when they wail on their beds. For the sake of grain and new wine they assemble, but they turn away from me.

⁴ »They chose their own kings. I did not approve. They chose their own princes. Princes I did not know. They made idols with their own silver and gold. Because of this, they will be destroyed!

¹³ »As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this evil has come upon us. Yet we have not earnestly requested the favor of Jehovah our God. We should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in your truth.