Hosea 5:3
I know Ephrayim, 1 and Yisroel is not hid from Me; 1 for now, O Ephrayim, thou committest whoredom, 1 and Yisroel is tameh (unclean, defiled). 1
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Genesis 48:19And aviv refused, and said, I know it, beni (my son), I know it; he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but truly achiv hakaton shall be greater than he, and his zera shall become a multitude of Goyim.
1 Kings 12:26And Yarov'am said in his lev, Now shall the mamlachah return to the Bais Dovid:
Isaiah 7:5Or because Aram (Syria), Ephrayim, and ben Remalyahu, have plotted your ruin, saying,
Isaiah 7:17Hashem shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon the Bais of thy father, yamim such as have not come since the yom when Ephrayim departed from Yehudah: + 7:17 2Kgs 15:29; 16:9 even Melech Ashur (Assyria).
Hosea 1:2The beginning of the Devar Hashem by Hoshea: And Hashem said to Hoshea: Go, take unto thee an eshet zenunim (wife of whoredoms) and yeladim of zenunim; for ha'aretz hath committed great whoredom, by departing from Hashem.
Hosea 5:9Ephrayim shall be desolate in the Yom Tokheichah (Day of Rebuke): 1 among the Shivtei Yisroel have I made known that which is certain. 1
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 →