Hosea 5:3
I, even I, know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from Me; for now, O Ephraim, thou hast committed harlotry, Israel is defiled.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
2And they that fall away are gone deep in making slaughter; and I am rejected 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 Aram hath counselled evil against thee, Ephraim also, and the son of Remaliah, saying:
Isaiah 7:17The LORD shall 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 the LORD spoke at first with Hosea, the LORD said unto Hosea: 'Go, take unto thee a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry; for the land doth commit great harlotry, departing from the LORD.'
Hosea 5:9Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke; among the tribes of Israel do I make 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 →