Isaiah 28:1

Judgment Against The Leaders Of Ephraim

¹ Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower which is on the head of the fat valleys of those who are overcome with wine! ² Behold, the Lord is a mighty and strong one, like a hailstorm, a destroying storm; like a flood of mighty waters overflowing, He casts down to the earth with the hand.

Ephraim

Samaria

Hosea 7:5

In the day of our king, the rulers have sickened themselves with the heat of wine. He stretches out his hand with scorners.

Isaiah 28:3-4

The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trampled under foot;

Isaiah 28:7

But they also have sinned through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way. The priest and the prophet have sinned through drink; they are swallowed up by wine; they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

2 Kings 14:25-27

He restored the border of Israel from the entering of Hamath to the sea of the plain, according to the Word of Jehovah, the God of Israel which He spoke by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath-hepher.

2 Kings 15:29

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he deported them to Assyria.

2 Kings 18:10-12

And at the end of three years they took it, in the sixth year of Hezekiah, it was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.

2 Chronicles 28:6

And Pekah the son of Remaliah killed a hundred and twenty thousand in Judah in one day, all mighty men, because they had forsaken Jehovah, the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 30:6-7

And the runners went with the letters from the king and his rulers to Israel and Judah, and according to the command of the king, saying, O sons of Israel, turn again to Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and He will return to the remnant of you who have escaped out of the hands of the king of Assyria.

Proverbs 23:29

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has fighting? Who has babbling? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?

Isaiah 5:11

Woe to those who rise up early in the morning to go after strong drink; tarrying in the twilight while wine inflames them!

Isaiah 5:22

Woe to those mighty to drink wine, and brave men to mix strong drink;

Isaiah 7:8-9

For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken so that it shall not be a people.

Isaiah 8:4

For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

Isaiah 9:9

And all the people shall know, Ephraim and the people of Samaria, who say in pride and hardness of heart,

Hosea 4:11

Fornication and wine and new wine take away the heart.

Hosea 5:5

And the pride of Israel testifies to his face. So Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.

Hosea 6:10

I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel; the harlotry of Ephraim is there; Israel is defiled.

Amos 2:8

And they will stretch beside every altar on garments taken in pledge, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.

Amos 2:12

But you gave the Nazarites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, Do not prophesy.

Amos 6:1

Woe to those at ease in Zion, and those trusting in the mountain of Samaria, who are noted as leader of the nations. And the house of Israel came to them.

Amos 6:6

who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best of oils; nor do they grieve for the breaking of Joseph!