Hosea 5:3
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not far from me: for now Ephraim has gone grievously a-whoring, Israel is defiled.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
2which they that hunt the prey have fixed: but I will correct you.
Cross References
Genesis 48:19And he would not, but said, I know it, son, I know it; he also shall be a people, and he shall be exalted, but 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, Behold, now the kingdom will return to the house of David.
Isaiah 7:5And as for the son of Aram, and the son of Remaliah, forasmuch as they have devised an evil counsel, saying,
Isaiah 7:17But God shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon the house of thy father, days which have never come, from the day that Ephraim took away from Judah the king of the Assyrians.
Hosea 1:2The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take to thyself a wife of fornication, and children of fornication: for the land will surely go a-whoring in departing from the Lord.
Hosea 5:9Ephraim has come to nought in the days of reproof: in the tribes of Israel I have shown faithful dealings.
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 →