Hosea 10:12-14
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12 “Plant the good seeds of righteousness, and you will reap a crop of my love; plow the hard ground of your hearts, for now is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and shower salvation upon you.
13 “But you have cultivated wickedness and raised a thriving crop of sins. You have earned the full reward of trusting in a lie—believing that military might and great armies can make a nation safe!
14 “Therefore, the terrors of war shall rise among your people, and all your forts will fall, just as at Beth-arbel, which Shalman[a] destroyed; even mothers and children were dashed to death there.
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- Hosea 10:14 Shalman: probably Salaman, king of Moab, who invaded Gilead around 740 B.C.
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