Maybe -- if it's to be believed and passed down.
Without the miracles it's just another apocryphal story of a religious preacher.
99.9% of the human population of the time had "turned their backs on the Abrahamic God. God took no notice.
People have always fought, leaders are always changing, and everyone claims God's on their side. How was this squabble any different?
How do you know the plans of the Assyrians?
Why not strike at the actual, "murderous perpetrator," rather than Ephraim and his 'women?'
This whole story sounds contrived.
God seems to do nothing to prevent evil. He just capriciously strikes out at random people. And it doesn't seem to work. No-one gets the message and becomes peaceful.
Maybe if the interventions were more direct...
as to how do I know the plans of the Assyrian, that's simple, as it's all written there within the old testament what the plans of the Assyrian are.
Why didn't God not strike at the actual, "murderous perpetrator the Assyrian king, rather than Ephraim and his 'women?'
Because Ephraim knew before they went there, what the murderous king of Assyria was like. But Ephraim went anyway. So who's at fault?
Because the tribe of Ephraim made their choice to follow the Assyrian king and his murderous ways.
So the tribe of Ephraim walk away from God, So God walk away from Ephraim.
The moral of this what's happening here,
Is if people walks away from God, Then God walks away from them.
The closer people walks towards God, the closer God walks towards them
God doesn't force anyone to believe in him nor does God force anyone to stay with him.
As this is what is happening with Ephraim, God isn't going to force Ephraim to stay, but let Ephraim find out for themselves that they had it good with God than without God.
You see what is happening with Ephraim, is a lesson to learn from.
To stay in the protection of God, But if people chooses to walk away from God. Than God walks away from them.
Thereby leaving Ephraim to all kinds of evil.
As Ephraim finds out, it was better to had stayed with God, than to walk away have evil come upon them.
So if you take what is happening with Ephraim and look at what is happening with the United States, that took God out of alot of things.
So the United States like Ephraim walking away from God, So now there's all this evil coming.
People going to schools, collages, all different kinds of places, killing innocent people.
Is that God's fault, why of course not. It's people who are at fault, just like it's Ephraim fault for walking away from God.
So God let Ephraim go. On their own.
You see the old testament is there to learn from what to do and what not to do.
If God did not tolerate his own people Israel doing things.
Why do people think that God will treat them any different or better, God will not.
Let's for say, that you live in an area that your are well protected that no one can get to you in no way.
But now you take upon yourself to walk away to leave that protection.
That now you leave, walk away, now your all on your own to defend for yourself against everything that will come your way and now all your enemies all come at you, because you have no more protection.
Because you walk away from the protection you once had.
What makes people think God's going to protect them and their the ones who are walking away from God
All God doing is setting back watching all the evil come upon people They ask for it.
It's like knowing the difference between day and night.
Knowing when you have it good and knowing the bad. It's people choice to stay with the good or walk away to the bad.
So why didn't God not strike at the actual, "murderous perpetrator the Assyrian king, rather than Ephraim and his 'women?'
The problem with that is, God didn't strike Ephraim and the women, it was Ephraim choice to go to the murderous king of Assyria,
As Ephraim knew before they went there, What the murderous king of Assyria was like before they went there. But Ephraim went anyway.