Hosea 5:3
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me. For now, O Ephraim, thou have played the harlot; Israel is defiled.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2And the revolters have gone deep in making slaughter, but I am a rebuker of them all.
Cross References
Genesis 48:19And his father refused, and said, I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. However, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
1 Kings 12:26And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now the kingdom will return to the house of David.
Isaiah 7:5Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have purposed evil against thee, saying,
Isaiah 7:17LORD will bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah--[even] the king of Assyria.
Hosea 1:2When LORD spoke at the first by Hosea, LORD said to Hosea, Go, take to thee a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom, departing from LORD.
Hosea 5:9Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of rebuke. I have made known that which shall surely be among the tribes of Israel.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 5:2-8
Charge against Israel and Judah; Judgments Threatened. ( b. c. 758.) 1 Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. 2 And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all. 3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled. 4 They will not frame their doings to turn… Read the whole commentary →