Hosea 5:3
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now Ephraim hath committed fornication, Israel is defiled.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2And you have turned aside victims into the depth: and I am, the teacher of them all.
Cross References
Genesis 48:19But he refusing, said: I know, my son, I know: and this also shall become peoples, and shall be multiplied: but this younger brother shall be greater than he: and his seed shall grow into nations.
1 Kings 12:26And Jeroboam said in his heart: Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David,
Isaiah 7:5Because Syria hath taken counsel against thee, unto the evil of Ephraim and the son of Romelia, saying:
Isaiah 7:17The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon the house of thy father, days that have not come since the time of the separation of Ephraim from Juda with the king of the Assyrians.
Hosea 1:2The beginning of the Lord's speaking by Osse: and the Lord said to Osee: Go, take thee a wife of fornications, and have of her children of fornications: for the land by fornication shall depart from the Lord.
Hosea 5:9Ephraim shall be in desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel I have shewn that which shall surely be.
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 →