Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgement, because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
In Context
12Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.
Cross References
1 Kings 12:26Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to David’s house.
2 Kings 15:29In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
Micah 6:16For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of Ahab’s house. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and your inhabitants a hissing. You will bear the reproach of my people.”
Matthew Henry on Hosea 5:9-15
Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 758.) 8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Beth-aven, after thee, O Benjamin. 9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be. 10 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. 11 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment. 12 Therefore will I be unto… Read the whole commentary →