Hosea 10:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.

An heifer

Hosea 4:16

Jeremiah 50:11

And loveth

Romans 16:18

But

Hosea 11:4

Judah

2 Chronicles 28:5

Isaiah 28:24

General references

Job 39:10

Bible References

An heifer

For Israel slides back like a stubborn heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in an open pasture.

Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, O you destroyers of my heritage, because you have grown fat like a heifer threshing grain, and bellow like bulls;

And loveth

For their mother has played the harlot: she that conceived them has done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her lover, and an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.

Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for you have played the harlot against your God, you have loved for hire upon every threshing floor.

You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.

For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the innocent.

But

I drew them with cords of compassion, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke from their jaws, and I laid food before them.

Judah

Therefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they defeated him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who defeated him with a great slaughter.

Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow? does he keep opening and breaking the clods of his ground?

General references

Can you bind the wild ox with ropes in the furrow? or will he plow the valleys behind you?