Hosea 13:16

“Samaria shall become desolate, etc.] With this verse the fourteenth chapter begins in the Hebrew copies, and in the Targum, and in many versions; but seems better to conclude the present chapter; since it is in close connection with (<281315>Hosea 13:15), and explains the figurative expressions there used. Samaria was the head of Ephraim, (<230709>Isaiah 7:9); or the metropolis of the ten tribes of Israel; whose desolation is here prophesied of, and was accomplished by Shalmaneser king of Assyria, signified by the east wind; by whom it was not only besieged and taken, but very probably its houses were demolished, its walls broken down, and razed to the very foundation; (see <121705>2 Kings…”

“This verse and Hos 13:15 foretell the calamities about to befall Israel before her restoration (Hos 13:14), owing to her impenitence. her God--the greatest aggravation of her rebellion, that it was against her God (Hos 13:4). infants . . . dashed in pieces, &c.-- (Kg2 8:12; Kg2 15:16; Amo 1:13). Next: Hosea Chapter 14”

“Samaria shall become desolate - Or “shall bear her iniquity.” Her iniquity should now find her out, and rest upon her. Of this, “desolation” was, in God’s judgments, the consequence. Samaria, “the nursery of idolatry and rebellion against God,” the chief in pride should be chief in punishment. “For she hath rebelled against her God.” It aggravated her sin, that He “against” whom “she rebelled,” was “her” own “God.” He who had chosen her to be His, and made Himself her God; who had showed Himself “her” God in the abundance of His loving-kindness, from the deliverance out of Egypt to that day. This her desolation, it is again said, should be Complete. Hope remains, if the people of a…”

“13:16 In 722 BC, Assyria captured Samaria, the capital of the northern kingdom (2 Kgs 17:5-6). Thousands died during the three-year siege, and thousands more were sent into exile. This was because they rebelled against their God. • The horrible practice of killing pregnant women is also mentioned in Amos 1:13 and 2 Kgs 15:16.”

“Samaria: Fulfilled, Kg2 17:6, Kg2 17:18, Kg2 19:9-11; Isa 7:8, Isa 7:9, Isa 8:4, Isa 17:3; Amo 3:9-15, Amo 4:1, Amo 6:1-8, Amo 9:1; Mic 1:4, Mic 6:16 their infants: Hos 10:14, Hos 10:15; Kg2 8:12, Kg2 15:16; Psa 137:8, Psa 137:9; Isa 13:16; Amo 1:13; Nah 3:10 Next: Hosea Chapter 14”

“(Heb. Bibl. Hos 14:1). "Samaria will atone, because it has rebelled against its God: they will fall by the sword; their children will be dashed to pieces, and its women with child ripped up." אשׁם, to atone, to bear the guilt, i.e., the punishment. It is not equivalent to shâmēm in Eze 6:6, although, as a matter of fact, the expiation consisted in the conquest and devastation of Samaria by Shalmanezer. The subject to yippelū (will fall) is the inhabitants of Samaria. The suffix to הריּותיו (its women, etc.) refers to the nation. The form הריּה is one derived from הרה, for הרה (Ewald, 189, c). The construction with the masculine verb יבקּעוּ, in the place of the feminine, is an anomaly,…”