Chapter Overview: Hosea 13 links Israel's fall from earlier faithfulness to idolatry and a variety of related sins that violate the Mosaic covenant.1 Ephraim had been dominant in Israel, but its Baal worship was open unfaithfulness that led to conquest and exile, so that Israel "died" as a nation.2
Hosea 13:16 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 [a]Samaria shall bear her guilt
because she has rebelled against her God;
they shall fall by the sword;
their little ones shall be dashed in pieces,
and their pregnant women ripped open.
- 13.16 14.1 in Heb