“Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.”
Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians, upon whom she doted; they uncovered her nakedness, took her sons and daughters, and slew her with the sword. God's judgment on Israel involves handing her to Assyria, the power she lusted after. The military conquest becomes the fulfillment of her lust for foreign power. Assassination represents the violent end of Israel's political independence.
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