Hosea 3:4

Another Symbolic Marriage

³ And I said to her, You shall abide for me many days. You shall not be a harlot, nor be for a man. And I also will be for you. ⁴ For the sons of Israel shall live many days with no king, and no ruler, and with no sacrifice, and no pillars, and no ephod, or teraphim. ⁵ Afterward the sons of Israel shall return and seek Jehovah their God and David their king. And they shall fear Jehovah and His goodness in the ends of the days.

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Judges 17:5

And the man Micah had a house of gods, and made an ephod and household gods, and anointed one of his sons, who became his priest.

Genesis 31:19

And Laban went to shear his sheep. And Rachel had stolen the images which were her father's.

Exodus 28:4

And these are the garments which they shall make: a breast-pocket, and an ephod, and a robe, and an embroidered coat, a miter, and a girdle. And they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, and his sons, so that he may minister to Me in the priest's office.

Judges 8:27

And Gideon made an ephod of it, and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel went there lusting after it, which thing became a snare to Gideon and to his house.

1 Samuel 23:9

And David knew that Saul secretly planned evil against him. And he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring the ephod here.

Daniel 9:27

And he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week. And in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease, and on a corner of the altar desolating abominations, even until the end. And that which was decreed shall be poured on the desolator.

Daniel 12:11

And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the desolating abomination set up, a thousand two hundred and ninety days shall occur.

Genesis 49:10

The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a Lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come. And the obedience of the peoples to him.

Leviticus 8:7

And he put on him the tunic, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him, and girded him with the embroidered girdle of the ephod, and bound it to him with it.

Judges 18:17-24

And the five men who went up to spy out the land came in there, and took the engraved image and the ephod and the household gods, and the molten image. And the priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men who were dressed with weapons of war.

1 Samuel 2:18

And Samuel served before Jehovah, a child girded with a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 14:3

And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, Jehovah's priest in Shiloh, was wearing an ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan was gone.

1 Samuel 21:9

And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is wrapped in a cloth under the ephod, if you will take, take it for yourself, for there is no other here except that one. And David said, There is none like that. Give it to me.

1 Samuel 22:18

And the king said to Doeg, You turn and fall on the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned and fell on the priests. And on that day he killed eighty-five persons who wore a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 23:6

And it happened when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, he came down with an ephod in his hand.

1 Samuel 30:7

And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, Please bring the ephod here to me. And Abiathar brought the ephod there to David.

2 Samuel 6:14

And David danced before Jehovah with all his might. And David was girded with a linen ephod.

2 Kings 23:24

And also Josiah put away the mediums, and the soothsayers, and the family gods, and the idols, and all the abominations which were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, so that he might perform the Words of the Law which were written in the Book which Hilkiah the priest found in the house of Jehovah.

2 Chronicles 15:2

And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin. Jehovah is with you while you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He will be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

Isaiah 19:19-20

In that day there shall be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at its border to Jehovah.

Jeremiah 15:4-5

And I will make them a horror to all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 20:32

And what comes up on your spirit shall not happen at all, that you say, We will be like the nations, like the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

Ezekiel 21:21

For the king of Babylon shall stand at the parting of the way, at the head of the two highways, to practice divination. He shall shake arrows; he shall ask household idols; he shall look at the liver.

Daniel 8:11-13

Yea, he magnified himself, even to the ruler of the host, and the daily sacrifice was taken away by him, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.

Daniel 11:31

And forces will stand from him, and they will profane the sanctuary, the fortress, and shall remove the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the desolating abomination.

Hosea 2:11

I will also cause all her joy to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts.

Hosea 10:1-3

Israel is a luxuriant vine; he brings out fruit to himself. According to the multitude of his fruit, he has increased the altars. They have made beautiful images according to the goodness of his land.

Hosea 13:11

I gave you a king in My anger, and took him away in My wrath.

Micah 5:11-14

And I will cut off the cities of your land, and throw down all your strongholds.

Zechariah 13:2

And it shall be in that day, says Jehovah of Hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall be remembered no more. And also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

Matthew 24:1-2

And Jesus went out and departed from the temple. And His disciples came to Him to show Him the buildings of the temple.

Luke 21:24

And they shall fall by the sword's edge. And shall be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the nations until the times of the nations is fulfilled.

John 19:15

But they cried out, Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him! Pilate said to them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.

Acts 6:13-14

And they set up false witnesses, who said, This man does not cease speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the Law.

Hebrews 10:26

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,