Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.

He willingly

General references

Bible References

Oppressed

Deuteronomy 28:33
The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever:
2 Kings 15:16
Then Menahem sent destruction on Tappuah and all the people in it, and its limits, from Tirzah, because they would not let him come in; and he had all the women who were with child cut open.
Amos 5:11
So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

He willingly

1 Kings 12:26
And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now the kingdom will go back to the family of David:
Micah 6:16
For you have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the family of Ahab, and you have been guided by their designs: so that I might make you a cause of wonder and your people a cause of hisses; and the shame of my people will be on you.

General references

Job 34:30
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Hosea 7:3
In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain