Hosea 5:1

The Priests Are A Snare

¹ Hear this, O priests!
Give heed, O house of Israel!
Listen, O house of the king!
For the judgment applies to you,
For you have been a snare at Mizpah
And a net spread out on Tabor.
² The revolters have gone deep in depravity,
But I will chastise all of them.

Give Ear

House of Israel

Take Heed

Give Heed

Pay Attention

Israel

Israelites

Jordan

Mizpah

Tabor

Hosea 9:8

Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet;
Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways,
And there is only hostility in the house of his God.

Hosea 6:9

And as raiders wait for a man,
So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem;
Surely they have committed crime.

Judges 4:6

Now she sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, “Behold, the Lord, the God of Israel, has commanded, ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men from the sons of Naphtali and from the sons of Zebulun.

Hosea 4:1

Listen to the word of the Lord, O sons of Israel,
For the Lord has a case against the inhabitants of the land,
Because there is no faithfulness or kindness
Or knowledge of God in the land.

1 Kings 14:7-16

Go, say to Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel, “Because I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over My people Israel,

1 Kings 21:18-22

“Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth where he has gone down to take possession of it.

2 Chronicles 21:12-15

Then a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet saying, “Thus says the Lord God of your father David, ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father and the ways of Asa king of Judah,

Jeremiah 13:18

Say to the king and the queen mother,
“Take a lowly seat,
For your beautiful crown
Has come down from your head.”

Jeremiah 22:1-9

Thus says the Lord, “Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and there speak this word

Jeremiah 46:18

“As I live,” declares the King
Whose name is the Lord of hosts,
“Surely one shall come who looms up like Tabor among the mountains,
Or like Carmel by the sea.

Hosea 4:6-7

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from being My priest.
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.

Hosea 7:3-5

With their wickedness they make the king glad,
And the princes with their lies.

Hosea 9:11-17

As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird—
No birth, no pregnancy and no conception!

Hosea 10:15

Thus it will be done to you at Bethel because of your great wickedness.
At dawn the king of Israel will be completely cut off.

Hosea 13:8

I will encounter them like a bear robbed of her cubs,
And I will tear open their chests;
There I will also devour them like a lioness,
As a wild beast would tear them.

Amos 7:9

“The high places of Isaac will be desolated
And the sanctuaries of Israel laid waste.
Then I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”

Micah 3:1

And I said,
“Hear now, heads of Jacob
And rulers of the house of Israel.
Is it not for you to know justice?

Micah 3:9

Now hear this, heads of the house of Jacob
And rulers of the house of Israel,
Who abhor justice
And twist everything that is straight,

Micah 7:2

The godly person has perished from the land,
And there is no upright person among men.
All of them lie in wait for bloodshed;
Each of them hunts the other with a net.

Habakkuk 1:15-17

The Chaldeans bring all of them up with a hook,
Drag them away with their net,
And gather them together in their fishing net.
Therefore they rejoice and are glad.

Malachi 1:6

“‘A son honors his father, and a servant his master. Then if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My respect?’ says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. But you say, ‘How have we despised Your name?’

Malachi 2:1

“And now this commandment is for you, O priests.