Hosea 10:14

‘Therefore will a tumult arise among your people,

And all your fortresses will be destroyed,

As Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel in the day of battle,

The mother was dashed in pieces with her children.'

But let them not doubt that problems were just around the corner. For shortly there would be a tumult among the people (battle cries and war cries and the anguished cries of the wounded and defeated), and all their fortresses would be destroyed (compare the curse in Leviticus 26:33), just as they had been in north west Israel when ‘Shalman' had destroyed Beth-arbel in the day of battle, and both mothers and children were dashed in pieces by the soldiery. Shalman may be a diminutive of Shalmaneser V of Assyria, although Shalmaneser's name is usually given in full (but not in Hosea). Or it may refer to a Moabite king named Salmanu (Assyrian - Salamani), mentioned in a tribute list of Tiglath Pileser III, who had seemingly gained notoriety for his merciless treatment of an Israelite town. An Arbela is mentioned in 1Ma 9:2 as on ‘the way that leads to Gilgal' which may be in Galilee, which would support a reference to Shalmaneser.