5 The inhabitants of Samaria tremble
for the calf of fBeth-aven.
Its people mourn for it, and so do its gidolatrous priests—
those who rejoiced over it and over its glory—
for it has departed from them.
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Hosea 4:15
Though you play the whore, O Israel,
let not Judah become guilty.
Enter not into Gilgal,
nor go up to Beth-aven,
and swear not, “As the LORD lives.”
Hosea 5:8
Blow the horn in Gibeah,
the trumpet in Ramah.
Sound the alarm at Beth-aven;
we follow you, O Benjamin!
Zephaniah 1:4
“I will stretch out my hand against Judah
and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
and I will cut off from this place the remnant of Baal
and the name of the idolatrous priests along with the priests,
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