Hosea 9:11
Ephraim has chased away their glory like a bird: from birth, and from the womb, and from conception.
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Genesis 41:52Likewise, he named the second Ephraim, saying, “God has caused me to increase in the land of my poverty.”
Genesis 49:22Joseph is a growing son, a growing son and stately to behold; the daughters run back and forth on the wall.
Deuteronomy 28:57and over the filth of the afterbirth, which goes forth from between her thighs, and over the children who are born in the same hour. For they will eat them secretly, due to the scarcity of all things during the siege and the devastation, with which your enemy will oppress you within your gates.
2 Samuel 6:23And so, there was no child born to Michal, the daughter of Saul, even to the day of her death.
Job 18:18He will expel him from light into darkness, and he will remove him from the world.
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man were to produce one hundred children, and to live for many years, and to attain to an age of many days, and if his soul were to make no use of the goods of his resources, and if he were lacking even a burial: concerning such a man, I declare that a miscarried child is better than he.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 9:8-11
Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 740.) 7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred. 8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God. 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins. 10 I found… Read the whole commentary →