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They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open.&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/hosea/13.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />The people of Samaria must bear the consequences of their guilt because they rebelled against their God. They will be killed by an invading army, their little ones dashed to death against the ground, their pregnant women ripped open by swords.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/hosea/13.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/hosea/13.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/hosea/13.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Samaria shall become desolate; 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/hosea/13.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Samaria is held guilty, For she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword, Their infants shall be dashed in pieces, And their women with child ripped open.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/hosea/13.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Samaria will pay the penalty for her guilt, Because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword, Their children will be slaughtered, And their pregnant women will be ripped open.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/hosea/13.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Samaria will be held guilty, For she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword, Their little ones will be dashed in pieces, And their pregnant women will be ripped open.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/hosea/13.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Samaria will be held guilty, For she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword, Their little ones will be dashed in pieces, And their pregnant women will be ripped open. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/hosea/13.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Samaria will be held guilty, For she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; Their infants will be dashed in pieces, And their pregnant women will be ripped open.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/hosea/13.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Samaria will be found guilty [and become desolate], Because she rebelled against her God; They will fall by the sword, Their infants will be dashed in pieces, And their pregnant women will be ripped open.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/hosea/13.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their children will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/hosea/13.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/hosea/13.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Samaria 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/hosea/13.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Samaria will be punished for turning against me. It will be destroyed in war--children will be beaten against rocks, and pregnant women will be ripped open. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/hosea/13.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Samaria 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/hosea/13.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />The people of Samaria are guilty as charged because they rebelled against their God. They will be killed in war, their children will be smashed to death, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/hosea/13.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Samaria must be punished for rebelling against me. Her people will die in war; babies will be dashed to the ground, and pregnant women will be ripped open." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/hosea/13.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br /> Samaria will be held guilty, because she has rebelled against her God. By the sword they will fall— with their infants dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women torn open."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/hosea/13.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/hosea/13.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Samaria will be held guilty, because she rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword, their infants will be dashed to the ground--their pregnant women will be ripped open. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/hosea/13.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/hosea/13.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Samaria shall become desolate; 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/hosea/13.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Samaria will bear her guilt, for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.” <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/hosea/13.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Samaria becomes desolate, "" Because she has been rebellious against her God, "" They fall by sword, "" Their sucklings are dashed in pieces, "" And its pregnant ones are ripped up!”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/hosea/13.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Become desolate doth Samaria, Because she hath rebelled against her God, By sword they do fall, Their sucklings are dashed in pieces, And its pregnant ones are ripped up!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/hosea/13.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Shomeron shall be guilty, for she rebelled against her God: by the sword shall they fall: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and they having conceived shall be cleft asunder.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/hosea/13.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Let Samaria perish, because she hath stirred up her God to bitterness: let them perish by the sword, let their little ones be dashed, and let the women with child be ripped up. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/hosea/13.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br /><V 14:1>Let Samaria perish, because she has urged her God towards bitterness. Let them perish by the sword, let their little ones be thrown down, and let their pregnant women be cut in two.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/hosea/13.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Samaria has become guilty, for she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword, their infants shall be dashed to pieces, their pregnant women shall be ripped open. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/hosea/13.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword, their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/hosea/13.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Samaria shall be condemned because she has 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/hosea/13.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Samaria shall be condemned because she was embittered against God; by the sword they shall fall and their infants shall be dashed in pieces and their pregnant women shall be ripped up<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/hosea/13.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Samaria 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/hosea/13.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Samaria shall be utterly destroyed: for she has resisted her God; they shall fall by the sword, and their sucklings shall be dashed against the ground, and their women and child ripped up.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/13-16.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xpPG1oLnpGk?start=2103" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/hosea/13.htm">The Judgment on Samaria</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15</span>Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article. <span class="reftext">16</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/8111.htm" title="8111: šō·mə·rō·wn (N-proper-fs) -- Capital of N. kingdom of Isr. From the active participle of shamar; watch-station; Shomeron, a place in Palestine.">Samaria</a> <a href="/hebrew/816.htm" title="816: te’·šam (V-Qal-Imperf-3fs) -- To offend, be guilty. Or mashem; a primitive root; to be guilty; by implication to be punished or perish.">will bear her guilt</a> <a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">because</a> <a href="/hebrew/4784.htm" title="4784: mā·rə·ṯāh (V-Qal-Perf-3fs) -- To be contentious or rebellious. A primitive root; to be bitter; to rebel.">she has rebelled</a> <a href="/hebrew/430.htm" title="430: bê·lō·he·hā (Prep-b:: N-mpc:: 3fs) -- Plural of 'elowahh; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used of the supreme God">against her God.</a> <a href="/hebrew/5307.htm" title="5307: yip·pō·lū (V-Qal-Imperf-3mp) -- To fall, lie. A primitive root; to fall, in a great variety of applications.">They will fall</a> <a href="/hebrew/2719.htm" title="2719: ba·ḥe·reḇ (Prep-b, Art:: N-fs) -- A sword. From charab; drought; also a cutting instrument, as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement.">by the sword;</a> <a href="/hebrew/5768.htm" title="5768: ‘ō·lə·lê·hem (N-mpc:: 3mp) -- A child. Or lolal; from uwl; a suckling.">their little ones</a> <a href="/hebrew/7376.htm" title="7376: yə·ruṭ·ṭā·šū (V-Pual-Imperf-3mp) -- To dash in pieces. A primitive root; to dash down.">will be dashed to pieces,</a> <a href="/hebrew/2030.htm" title="2030: wə·hā·rî·yō·w·ṯāw (Conj-w:: N-fpc:: 3ms) -- Pregnant. Or hariy; from harah; pregnant.">and their pregnant</a> <a href="/hebrew/1234.htm" title="1234: yə·ḇuq·qā·‘ū (V-Pual-Imperf-3mp) -- To cleave, break open or through. A primitive root; to cleave; generally, to rend, break, rip or open.">women ripped open.</a> </span><div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/17-5.htm">2 Kings 17:5-6</a></span><br />Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years. / In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/1-13.htm">Amos 1:13</a></span><br />This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/13-16.htm">Isaiah 13:16</a></span><br />Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/lamentations/2-20.htm">Lamentations 2:20</a></span><br />Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/18-9.htm">2 Kings 18:9-12</a></span><br />In the fourth year of Hezekiah’s reign, which was the seventh year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it. / And at the end of three years, the Assyrians captured it. So Samaria was captured in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel. / The king of Assyria exiled the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/10-11.htm">Isaiah 10:11</a></span><br />and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/1-6.htm">Micah 1:6</a></span><br />Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of rubble in the open field, a planting area for a vineyard. I will pour her stones into the valley and expose her foundations.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/13-14.htm">Jeremiah 13:14</a></span><br />I will smash them against one another, fathers and sons alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no mercy or pity or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/23-46.htm">Ezekiel 23:46-47</a></span><br />This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Bring a mob against them and consign them to terror and plunder. / The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nahum/3-10.htm">Nahum 3:10</a></span><br />Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/24-19.htm">Matthew 24:19</a></span><br />How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/21-23.htm">Luke 21:23</a></span><br />How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/18-8.htm">Revelation 18:8</a></span><br />Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/11-23.htm">Matthew 11:23</a></span><br />And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/10-15.htm">Luke 10:15</a></span><br />And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades!</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Samaria shall become desolate; for she has 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.</p><p class="hdg">Samaria.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_kings/17-6.htm">2 Kings 17:6,18</a></b></br> In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor <i>by</i> the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_kings/19-9.htm">2 Kings 19:9-11</a></b></br> And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying, … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/7-8.htm">Isaiah 7:8,9</a></b></br> For the head of Syria <i>is</i> Damascus, and the head of Damascus <i>is</i> Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people… </p><p class="hdg">their infants.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/10-14.htm">Hosea 10:14,15</a></b></br> Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon <i>her</i> children… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_kings/8-12.htm">2 Kings 8:12</a></b></br> And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_kings/15-16.htm">2 Kings 15:16</a></b></br> Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that <i>were</i> therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not <i>to him</i>, therefore he smote <i>it; and</i> all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/hosea/13-8.htm">Bear</a> <a href="/hosea/13-8.htm">Broken</a> <a href="/hosea/13-13.htm">Child</a> <a href="/hosea/13-13.htm">Children</a> <a href="/hosea/10-15.htm">Cut</a> <a href="/hosea/10-14.htm">Dashed</a> <a href="/hosea/5-15.htm">Desolate</a> <a href="/hosea/13-8.htm">Fall</a> <a href="/hosea/10-12.htm">Ground</a> <a href="/hosea/13-12.htm">Guilt</a> <a href="/hosea/13-1.htm">Guilty</a> <a href="/daniel/12-7.htm">Held</a> <a href="/lamentations/4-4.htm">Infants</a> <a href="/hosea/8-10.htm">Little</a> <a href="/hosea/13-8.htm">Ones</a> <a href="/hosea/13-8.htm">Open</a> <a href="/hosea/10-14.htm">Pieces</a> <a href="/jeremiah/20-17.htm">Pregnant</a> <a href="/hosea/8-1.htm">Rebelled</a> <a href="/2_kings/15-16.htm">Ripped</a> <a href="/hosea/10-14.htm">Rocks</a> <a href="/hosea/10-7.htm">Samaria</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-11.htm">Sucklings</a> <a href="/hosea/11-6.htm">Sword</a> <a href="/hosea/13-5.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/hosea/4-14.htm">Women</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/joel/2-11.htm">Bear</a> <a href="/joel/1-7.htm">Broken</a> <a href="/amos/1-13.htm">Child</a> <a href="/joel/1-3.htm">Children</a> <a href="/joel/1-5.htm">Cut</a> <a href="/nahum/3-10.htm">Dashed</a> <a href="/joel/1-17.htm">Desolate</a> <a href="/hosea/14-1.htm">Fall</a> <a href="/joel/1-10.htm">Ground</a> <a href="/amos/8-14.htm">Guilt</a> <a href="/joel/3-21.htm">Guilty</a> <a href="/joel/3-21.htm">Held</a> <a href="/joel/2-16.htm">Infants</a> <a href="/amos/6-11.htm">Little</a> <a href="/joel/1-2.htm">Ones</a> <a href="/joel/1-19.htm">Open</a> <a href="/amos/6-11.htm">Pieces</a> <a href="/amos/1-13.htm">Pregnant</a> <a href="/zephaniah/3-11.htm">Rebelled</a> <a href="/amos/1-13.htm">Ripped</a> <a href="/amos/6-12.htm">Rocks</a> <a href="/amos/3-9.htm">Samaria</a> <a href="/hosea/14-6.htm">Sucklings</a> <a href="/joel/2-8.htm">Sword</a> <a href="/joel/1-7.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/joel/2-29.htm">Women</a><div class="vheading2">Hosea 13</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/13-1.htm">Ephraim's glory vanishes.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">4. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/13-4.htm">God's anger.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/13-9.htm">God's mercy.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/13-15.htm">The judgment of Samaria.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/hosea/13.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/hosea/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/hosea/13.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>Samaria will bear her guilt</b><br>Samaria, the capital of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, represents the entire nation. The phrase indicates the inevitability of divine judgment due to persistent sin and idolatry. The concept of bearing guilt is rooted in the covenant relationship between God and Israel, where disobedience leads to consequences (<a href="/deuteronomy/28-15.htm">Deuteronomy 28:15-68</a>). This reflects the principle of reaping what one sows (<a href="/galatians/6-7.htm">Galatians 6:7</a>).<p><b>because she has rebelled against her God</b><br>Rebellion against God in the context of Hosea involves idolatry and breaking the covenant. The Israelites turned to Baal worship and alliances with foreign nations, forsaking their unique relationship with Yahweh. This rebellion is a recurring theme in the prophetic books, highlighting the spiritual adultery of Israel (<a href="/hosea/4-12.htm">Hosea 4:12-13</a>).<p><b>They will fall by the sword</b><br>This phrase predicts the violent destruction that will come upon Samaria as a result of their rebellion. Historically, this was fulfilled when the Assyrians conquered Samaria in 722 BC. The sword is often a symbol of war and divine judgment throughout the Bible (<a href="/jeremiah/25-29.htm">Jeremiah 25:29</a>).<p><b>their little ones will be dashed to pieces</b><br>This graphic imagery underscores the severity of the coming judgment. It reflects the brutal realities of ancient warfare, where even the most vulnerable were not spared. Such acts were common in ancient Near Eastern conquests and serve as a stark warning of the consequences of sin (<a href="/2_kings/8-12.htm">2 Kings 8:12</a>).<p><b>and their pregnant women ripped open</b><br>This phrase further emphasizes the totality of the destruction and the depth of the judgment. It is a hyperbolic expression of the horrors of war, intended to shock the audience into realizing the seriousness of their rebellion. This imagery is also found in other prophetic warnings (<a href="/amos/1-13.htm">Amos 1:13</a>), illustrating the complete devastation that accompanies divine judgment.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/s/samaria.htm">Samaria</a></b><br>The capital of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, representing the entire nation in this context. It was a center of idolatry and rebellion against God.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God</a></b><br>The one true God of Israel, whom the people of Samaria have rebelled against. His justice and holiness are central to this passage.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_assyrian_invasion.htm">The Assyrian Invasion</a></b><br>The historical event implied here, where the Assyrians conquered Samaria in 722 BC, leading to the destruction and exile of the Northern Kingdom.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_rebellion.htm">The Consequences of Rebellion</a></b><br>Rebellion against God leads to severe consequences. Samaria's fate serves as a warning to all who turn away from God's commandments.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_holiness_of_god.htm">The Holiness of God</a></b><br>God's holiness demands justice. His actions against Samaria reflect His righteous nature and intolerance of sin.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_repentance.htm">The Importance of Repentance</a></b><br>The passage underscores the need for repentance. Even in judgment, God desires His people to return to Him.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_reality_of_divine_judgment.htm">The Reality of Divine Judgment</a></b><br>God's judgment is real and should not be taken lightly. It serves as a call to live in obedience and reverence.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_hope_of_restoration.htm">The Hope of Restoration</a></b><br>While the passage is about judgment, the broader account of Hosea includes themes of restoration and hope for those who return to God.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_hosea_13.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Hosea 13</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_mention_infants_dashed_in_bible.htm">Why does the Bible mention infants dashed to pieces?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_hosea_12_8_contradict_israel's_exile.htm">Hosea 12:8: Does Israel’s claim of innocence here contradict passages in which Israel is already punished or exiled? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/can_records_verify_samaria's_destruction.htm">Hosea 13:16: Can any historical or archaeological records verify the severe destruction described for Samaria, or does the text exaggerate events to make a theological point?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_hosea_1_6-9_align_with_deut._24_16.htm">How does Hosea 1:6-9 align with a just God punishing children for their parents' actions, contrary to Deuteronomy 24:16?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/hosea/13.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 16.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God.</span> Others translate <span class="accented">shall atone, i</span>.<span class="accented">e</span>. bear guilt or punishment. In the latter sense it is from <span class="hebrew">אֵָשם</span>, to atone or suffer the punishment of contracted guilt; in the former sense it is from <span class="hebrew">שָׁמְם</span>, and it is translated accordingly by <span class="greek">ἀφανισθηδεταῖ</span> in the LXX., and <span class="accented">pereat</span> by Jerome; so also Aben Ezra: "It shall be laid waste;" Kimchi: "The <span class="accented">aleph</span> has <span class="accented">seh'wa</span> alone, and the signification 'desolation,' and so the dwellers therein shall be made desolate." He thus intimates that <span class="accented">aleph</span>, having <span class="accented">sch'aa</span> alone without seghol, does not belong to the root, which is not <span class="hebrew">אשם</span> (for its future would be <span class="hebrew">תֶּךאשׁם</span>), but <span class="hebrew">שָׁמַם</span>. Rashi, however, understands it in the sense of "atone," or "find out her guiltiness;" he says, "From now will her guilt manifest itself." The reason of Samaria being thus mentioned is not only that it was the capital of the northern kingdom, but, as Kimchi says, "it confirmed Israel in the worship of the calves; for if the kings had been good, they would have brought back Israel to what was good." The <span class="accented">ki</span> assigns the reason of Samaria's desolation or guilt; it was rebellion against Jehovah, for Samaria was the seat and center of idolatry, and hence it spread throughout the land. <span class="cmt_word">They shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.</span> The destruction thus described was to be complete. The present population would perish by the sword; the future progeny would be extinguished and all posterity cut off. Not only the children already born, but those unborn, were devoted to destruction; and all this in the most savage and barbarous manner. The word <span class="hebrew">עולֵל</span> (from <span class="hebrew">עלל</span>, to meddle, gratify one's self, indulge one's caprice) presents childhood on the side of playfulness or petulance. The pronominal suffix attached to <span class="hebrew">הרי</span> refers to the city; and the feminine noun itself, forming subject to verbs in the masculine, arises from the fact that the feminine of the imperfect plural becomes rarer; or because the feminine plural only gradually distinguishes itself by a peculiar form from the masculine. The cruelties here specified may have been occasioned by those of the same kind with which Menahem King of Samaria smote Tiphsah. On that occasion "all the women therein that were with child he ripped up" (compare, for the cruel practice, 'Iliad,' 6:58; ,<a href="/2_kings/8-12.htm">2 Kings 8:12</a> and 2 Kings 15:16). <p> <p> <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/hosea/13-16.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Samaria</span><br /><span class="heb">שֹֽׁמְר֔וֹן</span> <span class="translit">(šō·mə·rō·wn)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8111.htm">Strong's 8111: </a> </span><span class="str2">Samaria -- capital of northern kingdom of Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will bear her guilt</span><br /><span class="heb">תֶּאְשַׁם֙</span> <span class="translit">(te’·šam)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_816.htm">Strong's 816: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be guilty, to be punished, perish</span><br /><br /><span class="word">because</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּ֥י</span> <span class="translit">(kî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">A relative conjunction</span><br /><br /><span class="word">she has rebelled</span><br /><span class="heb">מָרְתָ֖ה</span> <span class="translit">(mā·rə·ṯāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4784.htm">Strong's 4784: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be contentious or rebellious</span><br /><br /><span class="word">against her God.</span><br /><span class="heb">בֵּֽאלֹהֶ֑יהָ</span> <span class="translit">(bê·lō·he·hā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_430.htm">Strong's 430: </a> </span><span class="str2">gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative</span><br /><br /><span class="word">They will fall</span><br /><span class="heb">יִפֹּ֔לוּ</span> <span class="translit">(yip·pō·lū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5307.htm">Strong's 5307: </a> </span><span class="str2">To fall, lie</span><br /><br /><span class="word">by the sword;</span><br /><span class="heb">בַּחֶ֣רֶב</span> <span class="translit">(ba·ḥe·reḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2719.htm">Strong's 2719: </a> </span><span class="str2">Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword</span><br /><br /><span class="word">their little ones</span><br /><span class="heb">עֹלְלֵיהֶ֣ם</span> <span class="translit">(‘ō·lə·lê·hem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5768.htm">Strong's 5768: </a> </span><span class="str2">A suckling</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will be dashed to pieces,</span><br /><span class="heb">יְרֻטָּ֔שׁוּ</span> <span class="translit">(yə·ruṭ·ṭā·šū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Pual - Imperfect - third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7376.htm">Strong's 7376: </a> </span><span class="str2">To dash in pieces</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and their pregnant</span><br /><span class="heb">וְהָרִיּוֹתָ֖יו</span> <span class="translit">(wə·hā·rî·yō·w·ṯāw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2030.htm">Strong's 2030: </a> </span><span class="str2">Pregnant</span><br /><br /><span class="word">women ripped open.</span><br /><span class="heb">יְבֻקָּֽעוּ׃</span> <span class="translit">(yə·ḇuq·qā·‘ū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Pual - Imperfect - third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1234.htm">Strong's 1234: </a> </span><span class="str2">To cleave, to rend, break, rip, open</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/hosea/13-16.htm">Hosea 13:16 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/hosea/13-16.htm">Hosea 13:16 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/hosea/13-16.htm">Hosea 13:16 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/hosea/13-16.htm">Hosea 13:16 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/hosea/13-16.htm">Hosea 13:16 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/hosea/13-16.htm">Hosea 13:16 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/hosea/13-16.htm">Hosea 13:16 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/hosea/13-16.htm">Hosea 13:16 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/hosea/13-16.htm">Hosea 13:16 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/hosea/13-16.htm">Hosea 13:16 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/hosea/13-16.htm">OT Prophets: Hosea 13:16 Samaria will bear her guilt (Ho Hs Hos.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/hosea/13-15.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Hosea 13:15"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Hosea 13:15" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/hosea/14-1.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Hosea 14:1"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Hosea 14:1" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>