. The training of the Chosen people. private vices that Amos denounced hadreached such a pitch that the priesthood itself had be-come a center of corruption (Hos. 6:9). In the days 124 Old Testament History of Hosea the clouds that Amos saw upon the horizonhad gathered themselves into a black and mighty massfrom which the lightnings flashed. The thunderbolt fell twice upon the northern king-dom. In 734 b. a, Tiglath-pileser subdued all the ter-ritory of Israel, except the few miles about the death of the great king, Samaria sought to se-cure its freedom from Assyria by an alliance w
. The training of the Chosen people. private vices that Amos denounced hadreached such a pitch that the priesthood itself had be-come a center of corruption (Hos. 6:9). In the days 124 Old Testament History of Hosea the clouds that Amos saw upon the horizonhad gathered themselves into a black and mighty massfrom which the lightnings flashed. The thunderbolt fell twice upon the northern king-dom. In 734 b. a, Tiglath-pileser subdued all the ter-ritory of Israel, except the few miles about the death of the great king, Samaria sought to se-cure its freedom from Assyria by an alliance withEgypt (2 Ki. 17: 4), but that was a vain hope, and Sar-gon—succeeding Shalmaneser IV, who had conqueredall Samaria except the city—in y22 captured the cityitself, weakened by pestilence and starvation, whichwas given up to plunder. Nearly thirty thousand ofitsinhabitants were carried into captivity and an Assyr-ian governor, who could be trusted, was placed overthose who were suffered to remain near the seats oftheir Assyrians Taking Away Captives and Spoil. The immediate or secondary causes of this catastro-phe, by which Israel lost its identity as a nation, areevident enough to any reader of the narrative in thebooks of Kings, with the light thrown upon it by Amosand Hosea. It is almost incredible, in view of thepower of Assyria under Tiglath-pileser, and in view ofthe disorganization and corruption in Israel, that thekingdom should not fall. But all three writers—theauthor of the Kings and the prophets Amos and Hosea—unite in attributing the fall of Samaria to a causethat lies behind all these immediate and secondary Chapter 34. Sin Bringeth Forth Death 125 causes. They all attribute the fall of Israel to the na-tions apostasy from Jehovah. The prophecies readlike a comment and exposition of the sober historicalstatement in the Kings: And it was so, because thechildren of Israel had sinned against Jehovah theirGod, who brought them up out of the land of
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