Hosea 5:3

I know Ephraim, And Israel is not hidden from me; For thou committest fornication, O Ephraim, And Israel is defiled.

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.

In Context

2By their sacrifices they commit deep transgression, And I will bring chastisement upon them all.

4They will not frame their doings To return to their God; For a spirit of fornication is within them, And they have no regard to Jehovah.

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Cross References

Isaiah 7:5Because Syria deviseth evil against thee, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying,

Isaiah 7:17Yet Jehovah shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, Days such as have not been Since Ephraim revolted from Judah. [[Even the king of Assyria.]]

Hosea 1:2The beginning of the word of Jehovah by Hosea. Jehovah said to Hosea: Go, and take thee a wife of lewdness, and children of lewdness; for the land hath committed great lewdness; it is false to Jehovah.

Hosea 5:9Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke; Among the tribes of Israel do I make known what is sure.

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 →

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