“The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven, for its people will mourn over it, along with its priests who rejoiced over it, for its glory, because it has departed from it.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.