Hosea 3:4
For the sons of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without ruler, and without sacrifice, and without pillar, and without ephod or teraphim.
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Genesis 31:19Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.
Exodus 28:4And these are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of checker work, a miter, and a sash. And they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister
Leviticus 8:7And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the sash, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and bound it to him therewith.
Judges 17:5And the man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
1 Samuel 2:18But Samuel ministered before LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
1 Samuel 21:9And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou killed in the vale of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If thou will take that, take it, for there is no other except that here. And Da
Matthew Henry on Hosea 3:2-5
Idolatry of Israel; The Prophet's Remonstrances; Promises to the Penitent. ( b. c. 760.) 1 Then said the Lord unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the Lord toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine. 2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a homer of barley, and a half homer of barley: 3 And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be… Read the whole commentary →