Hosea 11:5
Good News Translation
"They refuse to return to me, and so they must return to Egypt, and Assyria will rule them.

New Revised Standard Version
They shall return to the land of Egypt, and Assyria shall be their king, because they have refused to return to me.

Contemporary English Version
But they rejected me, and so must return to Egypt; now Assyria will rule them.

New American Bible
He shall return to the land of Egypt, Assyria shall be his king, because they have refused to repent.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king: because they would not be converted.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king: because they would not be converted.

shall not.

Hosea 7:16 They returned, that they might be without yoke: they became like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongue. This is their derision in the land of Egypt.

Hosea 8:13 They shall offer victims, they shall sacrifice flesh, and shall eat it, and the Lord will not receive them: now will he remember their iniquity, and will visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

Hosea 9:3,6 They shall not dwell in the Lord's land: Ephraim is returned to Egypt, and hath eaten unclean things among the Assyrians. . . .

but.

Hosea 5:13 And Ephraim saw his sickness, and Juda his band: and Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to the avenging king: and he shall not be able to heal you, neither shall he be able to take off the band from you.

Hosea 10:6 For itself also is carried into Assyria, a present to the avenging king: shame shall fall upon Ephraim, and Israel shall be confounded in his own will.

2 Kings 15:19,29 And Phul, king of the Assyrians, came into the land, and Manahem gave Phul a thousand talents of silver to aid him and to establish him in the kingdom. . . .

2 Kings 17:3-6 Against him came up Salmanasar, king of the Assyrians; and Osee became his servant, and paid him tribute. . . .

2 Kings 18:11 And the king of the Assyrians carried away Israel into Assyria, and placed them in Hala, and in Habor, by the rivers of Gozan, in the cities of the Medes.

Isaiah 8:6-8 Forasmuch as this people hath cast away the waters of Siloe, that go with silence, and hath rather taken Rasin, and the son of Romelia: . . .

Amos 5:27 And I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the God of hosts is his name.

They became tributaries to Salmanasser.

because.

Hosea 6:1 In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord.

2 Kings 17:13,14 And the Lord testified to them in Israel, and in Juda, by the hand of all the prophets and seers, saying: Return from your wicked ways, and keep my precepts, and ceremonies, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers: and as I have sent to you in the hand of my servants the prophets. . . .

2 Kings 18:12 Because they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord, their God, but transgressed his covenant: all that Moses, the servant of the Lord, commanded, they would not hear, nor do.

Jeremiah 8:4-6 And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: Shall not he that falleth, rise again? and he that is turned away, shall he not turn again? . . .

Amos 4:6,8-10 Whereupon I also have given you dulness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet you have not returned to me, saith the Lord. . . .

Zechariah 1:4-6 Be not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have cried, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Turn ye from your evil ways, and from your wicked thoughts: but they did not give ear, neither did they hearken to me, saith the Lord. . . .

Context
Out of Egypt I Called my Son
4I will draw them with the cords of Adam, with the bands of love: and I will be to them as one that taketh off the yoke on their jaws: and I put his meat to him that he might eat. 5He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king: because they would not be converted.6The sword hath begun in his cities, and it shall consume his chosen men, and shall devour their heads.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 17:16
And when he is made king, he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor lead back the people into Egypt, being lifted up with the number of his horsemen, especially since the Lord hath commanded you to return no more the same way.

Hosea 7:16
They returned, that they might be without yoke: they became like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongue. This is their derision in the land of Egypt.

Hosea 10:6
For itself also is carried into Assyria, a present to the avenging king: shame shall fall upon Ephraim, and Israel shall be confounded in his own will.

Hosea 11:4
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