REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Eighteen -"Fall Over Us And Hide Us"

 When Hosea was pronouncing Jehovah's judgment on Samaria, the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel, he said: "The high places of Beth-haven, the sin of Israel, will actually be annihilated. Thorns and thistles themselves will come up upon their altars.  And people  will in fact say to the mountains, 'Cover us!' and the hills, 'Fall over us!"  (Hosea 10:8) How were these words fulfilled?  Well,  when Samaria fell to the cruel Assyrians in 740 B.C.E., there was nowhere for the Israelites to run.  The words of Hosea express the feeling of helplessness, abject terror, and abandonment that the conquered people felt.  Neither the literal hills nor the mountainlike institutions of Samaria could protect them, even though they had seemed so permanent in the past.

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