Hosea 5:3

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Summary

Hosea 5:3

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.

Know

Amos 3:2

Hebrews 4:13

Revelation 3:15

Ephraim

Thou

Bible References

Know

"You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

"'I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot!

Ephraim

Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure.

What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.

Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they have become to him altars for sinning.

Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.

When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.

But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations."

A firstborn bull--he has majesty, and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he shall gore the peoples, all of them, to the ends of the earth; they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh."

Because Syria, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has devised evil against you, saying,

Thou

Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone.

And Jeroboam said in his heart, "Now the kingdom will turn back to the house of David.

Moreover, the LORD will raise up for himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam today. And henceforth,

"Oholah played the whore while she was mine, and she lusted after her lovers the Assyrians, warriors