Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.

The troop

Bible References

I would

Jeremiah 51:9
We applied the medicine to Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go each one into his own land; for her judgment is come unto heaven and is lifted up even to the clouds.
Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that didst kill the prophets and stone those who are sent unto thee, how often I desired to gather thy children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
Luke 13:34
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
Luke 19:42
saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

The iniquity

Hosea 4:17
Ephraim is given over to idols; leave him.
Hosea 6:8
Gilead is a city of those that work iniquity and is polluted with blood.
Hosea 8:9
For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass thinking only of himself; Ephraim has hired lovers.
Isaiah 28:1
Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim and to the open flower of the beauty of their glory which is upon the head of the fertile valley of those that are overcome with wine!
Micah 6:16
For the statutes of Omri have been kept and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye have walked in their counsels that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

Wickedness

Hosea 8:5
Thy calf, O Samaria, has cast thee off; my anger has been kindled against them until they could no longer be absolved.
Hosea 10:5
The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn because of the calf, and the religious persons thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, which shall be made to vanish away.
Ezekiel 16:46
And thine elder sister is Samaria with her daughters that dwell at thy left hand; and thy younger sister that dwells at thy right hand is Sodom with her daughters.
Ezekiel 23:4
And the names of them were Aholah the elder and Aholibah her sister; they were mine, and they bore sons and daughters. Thus were their names: Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
Amos 8:14
Those that swear by the guiltiness of Samaria and say, As thy God of Dan lives; and, As the way of Beersheba lives, even they shall fall, and never rise up again.

They commit

Hosea 5:1
Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ear, O house of the king because the judgment is for you, for ye have been a snare in Mizpah and a net spread over Tabor.
Hosea 6:10
I saw uncleanness in the house of Israel: there Ephraim played the harlot, Israel defiled herself.
Hosea 11:12
Ephraim compasses me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah yet rules with God and is faithful with the saints.
Hosea 12:1
Ephraim feeds on wind and follows after the east wind; he daily increases lies and desolation because they made a covenant with the Assyrians, and the oil is carried into Egypt.
Isaiah 59:12
For our rebellions are multiplied before thee, and our sins have testified against us; for our iniquities are with us; and we know our sins:
Jeremiah 9:2
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men that I might leave my people and go from them! for they are all adulterers, a congregation of rebels.
Micah 7:3
To complete the evil with their hands, the prince demands, and the judge judges for a reward; and the great man speaks the desires of his heart: and they confirm it.

The troop

Hosea 6:9
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the council of priests murder in the way by common accord; for they put the abomination into effect.