Hosea 11:6

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A sword will flash in their cities, it will destroy the bars of their city gates, and will devour them in their fortresses.

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  • Hos 13:16 : 16 (14:1) 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.
  • Hos 10:6 : 6 Even the calf idol will be carried to Assyria, as tribute for the great king. Ephraim will be disgraced; Israel will be put to shame because of its wooden idol.
  • Hos 10:14 : 14 Bethel Will Be Destroyed Like Beth Arbel The roar of battle will rise against your people; all your fortresses will be devastated, just as Shalman devastated Beth Arbel on the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children.
  • Mic 5:11 : 11 I will destroy the cities of your land, and tear down all your fortresses.
  • Mal 4:1 : 1 (3:19)“For indeed the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.“It will not leave them even a root or branch.
  • Lev 26:31 : 31 I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.
  • Lev 26:33 : 33 I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.
  • Deut 28:52 : 52 They will besiege all of your villages until all of your high and fortified walls collapse– those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the LORD your God has given you.
  • Deut 32:25 : 25 The sword will make people childless outside, and terror will do so inside; they will destroy both the young man and the virgin, the infant and the gray-haired man.
  • Ps 80:11-16 : 11 Its branches reached the Mediterranean Sea, and its shoots the Euphrates River. 12 Why did you break down its walls, so that all who pass by pluck its fruit? 13 The wild boars of the forest ruin it; the insects of the field feed on it. 14 O God of Heaven’s Armies, come back! Look down from heaven and take notice! Take care of this vine, 15 the root your right hand planted, the shoot you made to grow! 16 It is burned and cut down. They die because you are displeased with them.
  • Ps 106:39 : 39 They were defiled by their deeds, and unfaithful in their actions.
  • Ps 106:43 : 43 Many times he delivered them, but they had a rebellious attitude, and degraded themselves by their sin.
  • Isa 9:14 : 14 So the LORD cut off Israel’s head and tail, both the shoots and stalk in one day.
  • Isa 18:5 : 5 For before the harvest, when the bud has sprouted, and the ripening fruit appears, he will cut off the unproductive shoots with pruning knives; he will prune the tendrils.
  • Isa 27:10 : 10 For the fortified city is left alone; it is a deserted settlement and abandoned like the wilderness. Calves graze there; they lie down there and eat its branches bare.
  • Isa 30:1 : 1 Egypt Will Prove Unreliable“The rebellious children are as good as dead,” says the LORD,“those who make plans without consulting me, who form alliances without consulting my Spirit, and thereby compound their sin.
  • Jer 5:17 : 17 They will eat up your crops and your food. They will kill off your sons and your daughters. They will eat up your sheep and your cattle. They will destroy your vines and your fig trees. Their weapons will batter down the fortified cities you trust in.
  • Ezek 15:2-7 : 2 “Son of man, of all the woody branches among the trees of the forest, what happens to the wood of the vine? 3 Can wood be taken from it to make anything useful? Or can anyone make a peg from it to hang things on? 4 No! It is thrown in the fire for fuel; when the fire has burned up both ends of it and it is charred in the middle, will it be useful for anything? 5 Indeed! If it was not made into anything useful when it was whole, how much less can it be made into anything when the fire has burned it up and it is charred? 6 “Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Like the wood of the vine is among the trees of the forest which I have provided as fuel for the fire– so I will provide the residents of Jerusalem as fuel. 7 I will set my face against them– although they have escaped from the fire, the fire will still consume them! Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.
  • Ezek 20:47 : 47 and say to the scrub land of the Negev,‘Listen to the LORD’s message: This is what the Sovereign LORD has said: Look here, I am about to start a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree and every dry tree in you. The flaming fire will not be extinguished, and the whole surface of the ground from the Negev to the north will be scorched by it.

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