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Beginning with this chapter, and until the end of the prophecies of Hosea (ben Be\u2019eri), we find ourselves in the days of the last king of Samaria, Hosea (ben Ela). We know this from the fact that Egypt is depicted as facing Assyria in battle – “They have appealed to Egypt! They have gone to Assyria!” (verse 11. See also 2 Kings 17:3-6).<\/span><\/p>\n

The poor politics of an Egyptian-backed rebellion against Assyria was the direct cause of the destruction of Samaria (and, subsequently, the destruction of Judea, as well). Samaria could have survived as a small and submissive kingdom had it reconciled with the loss of Galilee and Gilead and Sharon, and waited for Assyria\u2019s descent from the world stage, as had been suggested by the prophets (from Isaiah to Jeremiah).<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyone who was really expecting that to happen was making a serious error.<\/span><\/p>\n

The death of Tiglath-Pileser III, the great Assyrian conqueror, gave many the sense that the Assyrian Empire had been weakened. Shalmaneser V did not appear to be a strong, global ruler, and many mistakenly thought that a strong union of many kingdoms, supported by massive Egyptian aid, would bring about an international changing of the guard.<\/span><\/p>\n

King Hezekiah, who ascended to the throne of the southern kingdom of Judah at that time, followed the teachings of Isaiah, and (in his early years) engaged in national moral, and religious rehabilitation without allowing himself to be drawn into the ideas of rebellion. Hosea ben Elah did not join Hezekiah\u2019s reform movement and became involved in Egyptian political intrigue, unable to foresee the impending disaster – “This will<\/span> be their calamity in the land of Egypt” (verse 16).<\/span><\/p>\n

One could say about the king and his ministers that they \u201cfell asleep on duty\u201d. The metaphor used by Hosea presents Samaria as a bakery where the baker has a drunken feast. 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