Hosea 5:3
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, O Ephraim, thou hast played the harlot, Israel is defiled.
ASV Byzantine Text
In The King James Version
In Context
2And the revolters are 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 it, my son, I know it; he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: howbeit 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 will the kingdom return to the house of David:
Isaiah 7:5Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have purposed evil against thee, saying,
Isaiah 7:17Jehovah 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 Jehovah spake at the first by Hosea, Jehovah said unto Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom; for the land doth commit great whoredom, departing from Jehovah.
Hosea 5:9Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known 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 →