Hosea 5:3

I know Ephraim, 1 and Israel is not hidden from me. 1 Ephraim, now you have become like a prostitute; 1 Israel is defiled. 1

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

In Context

2The rebels stand deep in slaughter, 1 but I will punish all of them. + 5:2 Some modern versions have The rebels have dug a deep pit , The rebels have dug deep at Shittim , or, continuing on from the previous verse, a pit dug deep at Shittim . 1

4Their deeds will not allow them to turn to God, 1 for the mind of adultery is in them, 1 and they do not know Yahweh. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 48:19His father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. Yet his younger brother will be greater than he, and his descendants will become a multitude of nations.”

1 Kings 12:26Jeroboam thought in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to the house of David.

Isaiah 7:5Aram, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have planned evil against you; they have said,

Isaiah 7:17Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father's house days unlike any since Ephraim seceded from Judah—he will bring on you the king of Assyria.” 1

Hosea 1:2When Yahweh spoke at first through Hosea, he said to him, 1 “Go, take for yourself a wife who is a prostitute. 1 She will have children who are the result of her prostitution. 1 For the land is committing great prostitution 1 by forsaking Yahweh.”

Hosea 5:9Ephraim will become a desolation on the day of punishment. 1 Among the tribes of Israel I have declared what is certain to happen. 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 →

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