Hosea 5:3
I know Ephraim,and Israel is not hidden from me;for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute.Israel is defiled.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2The rebels are deep in slaughter;but I discipline all of them.
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. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations."
1 Kings 12:26Jeroboam said in his heart, "Now the kingdom will return to the house of David.
Isaiah 7:5Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have plotted evil against you, saying,
Isaiah 7:17The Lord will bring on you, on your people, and on your father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
Hosea 1:2When the Lord spoke at the first by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, "Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking the Lord."
Hosea 5:9Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke.Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.
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 →