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 {chosen} of all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

And no creature is hidden in the sight of him, but all [things are] naked and laid bare to the eyes of him to whom {we must give our account}.

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

Ephraim

Ephraim will be a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I will reveal what is true.

What will I do with you, Ephraim? What will I do with you, Judah? Your love [is] like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes away early in the morning.

When Ephraim multiplied altars to expiate sins, they became to him altars to sin [on].

Ephraim herds [the] wind and [is] pursuing [the] east wind all day long; he multiplies deception and violence and he {makes a treaty with Assyria}, and oil is brought to Egypt.

When Ephraim spoke, [there was] terror; 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, but his younger brother shall be greater than him, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations."

[As] the firstborn of his ox, majesty {belongs to him}, and his horns [are] [the] horns of a wild ox; with them he drives people together, and they [are] the myriads of Ephraim, and they [are] the thousands of Manasseh."

Because Aram has plotted evil against you [with] Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying,

Thou

Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.

Then Jeroboam {said to himself}, "Now the kingdom will return to the house of David

Yahweh will raise up a king for himself over Israel who will even now cut off the house of Jeroboam this day.

And Oholah prostituted [herself] {while she was still mine}, and she lusted for her lovers, for Assyria [who was] nearby,