¹⁶ The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, ^(A)you are about to lie down with your fathers; and ^(B)this people will arise and play the harlot with the strange gods of the land, into the midst of which they are going, and ^(C)will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them. ^17 (D)Then My anger will be kindled against them in that day, and ^(E)I will forsake them and ^(F)hide My face from them, and they will be consumed, and many evils and troubles will come upon them; so that they will say in that day, ‘^(G)Is it not because our God is not among us that these evils have come upon us?’

^3 (A)Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up ^(B)against him, and Hoshea became his servant and paid him tribute. ⁴ But the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea, who had sent messengers to So king of Egypt and had offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; so the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.