Hosea 3:4

Another Symbolic Marriage

³ Then I told her, "You must live with me many days; you must not commit adultery or have sexual intercourse with another man, and I also will wait for you." ⁴ For the Israelites must live many days without a king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred fertility pillar, without ephod or idols. ⁵ Afterward, the Israelites will turn and seek the Lord their God and their Davidic king. Then they will submit to the Lord in fear and receive his blessings in the future.

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Judges 17:5

Now this man Micah owned a shrine. He made an ephod and some personal idols and hired one of his sons to serve as a priest.

Genesis 31:19

While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.

Exodus 28:4

Now these are the garments that they are to make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a fitted tunic, a turban, and a sash. They are to make holy garments for your brother Aaron and for his sons, that they may minister as my priests.

Judges 8:27

Gideon used all this to make an ephod, which he put in his hometown of Ophrah. All the Israelites prostituted themselves to it by worshiping it there. It became a snare to Gideon and his family.

1 Samuel 23:9

When David realized that Saul was planning to harm him, he told Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod!"

Daniel 9:27

He will confirm a covenant with many for one week. But in the middle of that week he will bring sacrifices and offerings to a halt. On the wing of abominations will come one who destroys, until the decreed end is poured out on the one who destroys."

Daniel 12:11

From the time that the daily sacrifice is removed and the abomination that causes desolation is set in place, there are 1,290 days.

Genesis 49:10

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs; the nations will obey him.

Leviticus 8:7

Then he put the tunic on Aaron, wrapped the sash around him, and clothed him with the robe. Next he put the ephod on him and placed on him the decorated band of the ephod, and fastened the ephod closely to him with the band.

Judges 18:17-24

The five men who had gone to spy out the land broke in and stole the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, while the priest was standing at the entrance to the gate with the six hundred fully armed men.

1 Samuel 2:18

Now Samuel was ministering before the Lord. The boy was dressed in a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 14:3

Now Ahijah was carrying an ephod. He was the son of Ahitub, who was the brother of Ichabod and a son of Phineas, son of Eli, the priest of the Lord in Shiloh. The army was unaware that Jonathan had left.

1 Samuel 21:9

The priest replied, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the valley of Elah, is wrapped in a garment behind the ephod. If you wish, take it for yourself. Other than that, there's nothing here." David said, "There's nothing like it! Give it to me!"

1 Samuel 22:18

Then the king said to Doeg, "You turn and strike down the priests!" So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests. He killed on that day eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.

1 Samuel 23:6

Now when Abiathar son of Ahimelech had fled to David at Keilah, he had brought with him an ephod.

1 Samuel 30:7

Then David said to the priest Abiathar son of Ahimelech, "Bring me the ephod." So Abiathar brought the ephod to David.

2 Samuel 6:14

Now David, wearing a linen ephod, was dancing with all his strength before the Lord.

2 Kings 23:24

Josiah also got rid of the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, and all the detestable idols that had appeared in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. In this way he carried out the terms of the law recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord's temple.

2 Chronicles 15:2

He met Asa and told him, "Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin! The Lord is with you when you are loyal to him. If you seek him, he will respond to you, but if you reject him, he will reject you.

Isaiah 19:19-20

At that time there will be an altar for the Lord in the middle of the land of Egypt, as well as a sacred pillar dedicated to the Lord at its border.

Jeremiah 15:4-5

I will make all the people in all the kingdoms of the world horrified at what has happened to them because of what Hezekiah's son Manasseh, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem."

Ezekiel 20:32

"'What you plan will never happen. You say, "We will be like the nations, like the clans of the lands, who serve gods of wood and stone."

Ezekiel 21:21

For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road at the head of the two routes. He looks for omens: He shakes arrows, he consults idols, he examines animal livers.

Daniel 8:11-13

It also acted arrogantly against the Prince of the army, from whom the daily sacrifice was removed and whose sanctuary was thrown down.

Daniel 11:31

His forces will rise up and profane the fortified sanctuary, stopping the daily sacrifice. In its place they will set up the abomination that causes desolation.

Hosea 2:11

I will put an end to all her celebration: her annual religious festivals, monthly new moon celebrations, and weekly Sabbath festivities -- all her appointed festivals.

Hosea 10:1-3

Israel was a fertile vine that yielded fruit. As his fruit multiplied, he multiplied altars to Baal. As his land prospered, they adorned the fertility pillars.

Hosea 13:11

I granted you a king in my anger, and I will take him away in my wrath!

Micah 5:11-14

I will destroy the cities of your land, and tear down all your fortresses.

Zechariah 13:2

And also on that day," says the Lord who rules over all, "I will remove the names of the idols from the land and they will never again be remembered. Moreover, I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.

Matthew 24:1-2

Now as Jesus was going out of the temple courts and walking away, his disciples came to show him the temple buildings.

Luke 21:24

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led away as captives among all nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

John 19:15

Then they shouted out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" Pilate asked, "Shall I crucify your king?" The high priests replied, "We have no king except Caesar!"

Acts 6:13-14

They brought forward false witnesses who said, "This man does not stop saying things against this holy place and the law.

Hebrews 10:26

For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us,