Hosea 10:7
Good News Translation
Their king will be carried off, like a chip of wood on water.

New Revised Standard Version
Samaria’s king shall perish like a chip on the face of the waters.

Contemporary English Version
Like a twig in a stream, the king of Samaria will be swept away.

New American Bible
Samaria and her king will disappear, like a twig upon the waters.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Samaria hath made her king to pass as froth upon the face of the water.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Samaria hath made her king to pass as froth upon the face of the water.

Samaria.

1 Kings 21:1 And after these things, Naboth the Jezrahelite, who was in Jezrahel, had at that time a vineyard, near the palace of Achab, king of Samaria.

2 Kings 1:3 And an angel of the Lord spoke to Elias, the Thesbite, saying: Arise, and go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them: Is there not a God in Israel, that ye go to consult Beelzebub, the god of Accaron?

king.

Hosea 10:3,15 For now they shall say: We have no king: because we fear not the Lord: and what shall a king do to us? . . .

2 Kings 15:30 Now Osee, son of Ela, conspired, and formed a plot against Phacee, the son of Romelia, and struck him, and slew him: and reigned in his stead in the twentieth year of Joatham, the son of Ozias.

2 Kings 17:4 And when the king of the Assyrians found that Osee, endeavouring to rebel, had sent messengers to Sua, the king of Egypt, that he might not pay tribute to the king of the Assyrians, as he had done every year, he besieged him, bound him, and cast him into prison.

the water.

Jude 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own confusion: wandering stars, to whom the storm of darkness is reserved for ever.

Context
Retribution for Israel's Sin
6For itself also is carried into Assyria, a present to the avenging king: shame shall fall upon Ephraim, and Israel shall be confounded in his own will. 7Samaria hath made her king to pass as froth upon the face of the water.8And the high places of the idol, the sin of Israel shall be destroyed: the bur and the thistle shall grow up over their altars: and they shall say to the mountains Cover us; and to the hills: Fall upon us.…
Cross References
Hosea 13:11
I will give thee a king in my wrath, and will take him away in my indignation.

Hosea 10:8
And the high places of the idol, the sin of Israel shall be destroyed: the bur and the thistle shall grow up over their altars: and they shall say to the mountains Cover us; and to the hills: Fall upon us.

Hosea 10:6
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