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HOSEA
CHAPTER 8
  9 For they are gone up to aAssyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath bhired lovers.

Footnotes
9a
2 Kgs. 15: 19.
  19 And Pul the king of aAssyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
2 Kgs. 17: 6 (3-6)
  6 ¶ In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took aSamaria, and bcarried cIsrael away into dAssyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Ezek. 23: 5.
  5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the aAssyrians her neighbours,
b
Ezek. 16: 33 (33, 41)
  33 They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and ahirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.