Hosea 5:3
I knowe Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for nowe, O Ephraim thou art become an harlot, and Israel is defiled.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
2Yet they were profounde, to decline to slaughter, though I haue bene a rebuker of them all.
Cross References
Genesis 48:19But his father refused, and sayd, I know well, my sonne, I know well: he shalbe also a people, and he shalbe great likewise: but his yonger brother shalbe greater then he, and his seede shall be full of nations.
1 Kings 12:26And Ieroboam thought in his heart, Nowe shall the kingdome returne to the house of Dauid.
Isaiah 7:5Because Aram hath taken wicked counsell against thee, and Ephraim, and Remaliahs sonne, saying,
Isaiah 7:17The Lord shall bring vpon thee, and vpon thy people, and vpon thy fathers house (the dayes that haue not come from the day that Ephraim departed from Iudah) euen the King of Asshur.
Hosea 1:2At the beginning the Lord spake by Hosea, and the Lord said vnto Hosea, Goe, take vnto thee a wife of fornications, and children of fornications: for the lande hath committed great whoredome, departing from the Lord.
Hosea 5:9Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel haue I caused to knowe the trueth.
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 →