Hosea 4:17
Ephraim is joined to false gods; let him be.
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- Ps 81:12 : 12 So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.
- Hos 4:4 : 4 Let no man go to law or make protests, for your people are like those who go to law with a priest.
- Hos 13:2 : 2 And now their sins are increased; they have made themselves a metal image, false gods from their silver, after their designs, all of them the work of the metal-workers; they say of them, Let them give offerings, let men give kisses to the oxen.
- Matt 15:14 : 14 Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.
- Rev 22:11 : 11 Let the evil man go on in his evil: and let the unclean be still unclean: and let the upright go on in his righteousness: and let the holy be holy still.
- Hos 11:2 : 2 When I sent for them, then they went away from me; they made offerings to the Baals, burning perfumes to images.
- Hos 12:1 : 1 The deceit of Ephraim and the false words of Israel are about me on every side. ...
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- Hos 4:15-162 verses76%
15 Do not you, O Israel, come into error; do not you, O Judah, come to Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven, or take an oath, By the living Lord.
16 For Israel is uncontrolled, like a cow which may not be controlled; now will the Lord give them food like a lamb in a wide place.
- Hos 5:3-64 verses74%
3 I have knowledge of Ephraim, and Israel is not secret from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have been false to me, Israel has become unclean.
4 Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.
5 And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; and Ephraim will have a fall through his sins, and the fall of Judah will be the same as theirs.
6 They will go, with their flocks and their herds, in search of the Lord, but they will not see him; he has taken himself out of their view.
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9 For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.
- Ezek 14:4-63 verses74%
4 For this cause say to them, These are the words of the Lord: Every man of Israel who has taken his false god into his heart, and put before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, and comes to the prophet; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself in agreement with the number of his false gods;
5 So as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of their hearts, because they have become strange to me through their false gods.
6 For this cause say to the children of Israel, These are the words of the Lord: Come back and give up your false gods and let your faces be turned from your disgusting things.
- Hos 5:11-122 verses73%
11 Ephraim is troubled; he is crushed by his judges, because he took pleasure in walking after deceit.
12 And so to Ephraim I am like a wasting insect, and a destruction to the children of Judah.
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8 Ephraim is mixed with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
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11 Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.
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18 Their drink has become bitter; they are completely false; her rulers take pleasure in shame.
- Hos 7:10-112 verses72%
10 And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; but for all this, they have not gone back to the Lord their God, or made search for him.
11 And Ephraim is like a foolish dove, without wisdom; they send out their cry to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
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14 And by a prophet the Lord made Israel come up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was kept safe.
- Hos 13:1-22 verses71%
1 When the words of my law came from Ephraim, he was lifted up in Israel; but when he did evil through the Baal, death overtook him.
2 And now their sins are increased; they have made themselves a metal image, false gods from their silver, after their designs, all of them the work of the metal-workers; they say of them, Let them give offerings, let men give kisses to the oxen.
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9 Ephraim will become a waste in the day of punishment; I have given knowledge among the tribes of Israel of what is certain.
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8 They will come back and have rest in his shade; their life will be made new like the grain, and they will put out flowers like the vine; his name will be like the wine of Lebanon.
- Hos 9:16-172 verses71%
16 The rod has come on Ephraim, their root is dry, let them have no fruit; even though they give birth, I will put to death the dearest fruit of their bodies.
17 My God will give them up because they did not give ear to him; they will be wandering among the nations.
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10 In Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean;
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1 The deceit of Ephraim and the false words of Israel are about me on every side. ...
- Hos 8:5-62 verses70%
5 I will have nothing to do with your young ox, O Samaria; my wrath is burning against them; how long will it be before the children of Israel make themselves clean?
6 The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.
- Hos 10:1-22 verses70%
1 Israel is a branching vine, full of fruit; as his fruit is increased, so the number of his altars is increased; as the land is fair, so they have made fair pillars.
2 Their mind is taken away; now they will be made waste: he will have their altars broken down, he will give their pillars to destruction.
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7 How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women.
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11 And Ephraim is a trained cow, taking pleasure in crushing the grain; but I have put a yoke on her fair neck; I will put a horseman on the back of Ephraim; Judah will be working the plough, Jacob will be turning up the earth.
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2 When I sent for them, then they went away from me; they made offerings to the Baals, burning perfumes to images.
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3 Israel has given up what is good; his haters will go after him.
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10 This is what the Lord has said about this people: Even so they have been glad to go from the right way; they have not kept their feet from wandering, so the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep their wrongdoing in mind and send punishment for their sins.
- Isa 31:6-72 verses69%
6 Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.
7 For in that day they will all give up their images of silver and of gold, the sin which they made for themselves.
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38 A sword is on her waters, drying them up; for it is a land of images, and their minds are fixed on false gods.
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30 They will do these things to you because you have been untrue to me, and have gone after the nations, and have become unclean with their images.
- Hos 10:5-62 verses68%
5 The people of Samaria will be full of fear because of the ox of Beth-aven; its people will have sorrow for it, and its priests will give cries of grief for its glory, for the glory has gone in flight.
6 And they will take it to Assyria and give it to the great king; shame will come on Ephraim, and Israel will be shamed because of its image.
- Jer 2:19-202 verses68%
19 The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
20 For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman
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12 The wrongdoing of Ephraim is shut up; his sin is put away in secret.
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14 For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the children of Judah; I, even I, will give him wounds and go away; I will take him away, and there will be no helper.
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10 But as for the Levites, who went far from me, when Israel went out of the right way, turning away from me to go after their images; their punishment will come on them.
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10 For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.
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13 And the envy of Ephraim will be gone, and those who make trouble for Judah will come to an end: Ephraim will have no more envy of Judah, and there will be an end of Judah's hate for Ephraim.
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10 They will have food, but they will not be full; they will be false to me, but they will not be increased, because they no longer give thought to the Lord.