And the head of Ephraim [is] Samaria, and the head of Samaria [is] the son of Remaliah. If you do not believe then you will not endure." '"

Where [are] the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where [are] the gods of Sepharvaim? Indeed, [have] they delivered Samaria from my hand?

For before the boy knows to call 'my father' and 'my mother,' [one] will carry away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria in the presence of the king of Assyria."

And all of the people knew it, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria in pride and arrogance of heart, saying,

[Is] not Calno like Carchemish? [Is] not Hamath like Arpad? [Is] not Samaria like Damascus?

As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols --and their images were {greater than those of} Jerusalem and Samaria--

shall I not do to Jerusalem and its idols what I have done to Samaria and her idols?"