Hosea 9:3
You will not stay in the Lord's land, instead Ephraim will return to Egypt, and will eat unclean food in Assyria.
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Leviticus 18:28If you pollute the land, it will vomit you out just like it did the nations before you.
Leviticus 25:23Land must not be permanently sold, because it really belongs to me. To me you are only foreigners and travelers passing through.
Deuteronomy 28:63In the same way as he wanted to make you prosperous and increase in number, so now he will wipe you out and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the country you are going in to own.
Joshua 23:15But in the same way that you received all the good things that the Lord your God promised, the Lord will bring on you all the bad things he has threatened until you're completely wiped out from this good land the Lord your God has given to you.
2 Kings 17:6In the ninth year of the reign of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the Israelites to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River, and in the towns of the Medes.
Jeremiah 2:7I led you into a productive land to eat all the good things that grow there. But you came and made my land unclean, making it offensive to me.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 9:2-7
Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 740.) 1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every corn-floor. 2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. 3 They shall not dwell in the Lord 's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria. 4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord , neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto… Read the whole commentary →