Hosea 7:8

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Ephraim is mixed with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

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  • Ps 106:35 : 35 But they were joined to the nations, learning their works.
  • Hos 5:13 : 13 When Ephraim saw his disease and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to the great king; but he is not able to make you well or give you help for your wound.
  • Hos 8:2-4 : 2 They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel. 3 Israel has given up what is good; his haters will go after him. 4 They have put up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, but I had no knowledge of it; they have made images of silver and gold, so that they may be cut off.
  • Hos 9:3 : 3 They will have no resting-place in the Lord's land, but Ephraim will go back to Egypt, and they will take unclean food in Assyria.
  • Zeph 1:5 : 5 And the worshippers of the army of heaven on the house-tops, and the Lord's worshippers who take oaths by Milcom,
  • Mal 2:11 : 11 Judah has been acting falsely, and a disgusting thing has been done in Jerusalem; for Judah has made unclean the holy place of the Lord which is dear to him, and has taken as his wife the daughter of a strange god.
  • Matt 6:24 : 24 No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
  • Rev 3:15-16 : 15 I have knowledge of your works, that you are not cold or warm: it would be better if you were cold or warm. 16 So because you are not one thing or the other, I will have no more to do with you.
  • 1 Kgs 18:21 : 21 And Elijah came near to all the people and said, How long will you go on balancing between two opinions? if the Lord is God, then give worship to him; but if Baal, give worship to him. And the people said not a word in answer.
  • Ezra 9:1 : 1 Now after these things were done, the captains came to me and said, The people of Israel and the priests and Levites have not kept themselves separate from the people of the lands, but have taken part in the disgusting ways of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
  • Ezra 9:12 : 12 So now do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or do anything for their peace or well-being for ever; so that you may be strong, living on the good of the land, and handing it on to your children for a heritage for ever.
  • Neh 13:23-25 : 23 And in those days I saw the Jews who were married to women of Ashdod and Ammon and Moab: 24 And their children were talking half in the language of Ashdod; they had no knowledge of the Jews' language, but made use of the language of the two peoples. 25 And I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair; and I made them take an oath by God, saying, You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.
  • Ezek 23:4-9 : 4 Their names were Oholah, the older, and Oholibah, her sister: and they became mine, and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem, Oholibah. 5 And Oholah was untrue to me when she was mine; she was full of desire for her lovers, even for the Assyrians, her neighbours, 6 Who were clothed in blue, captains and rulers, all of them young men to be desired, horsemen seated on horses. 7 And she gave her unclean love to them, all of them the noblest men of Assyria: and she made herself unclean with the images of all who were desired by her. 8 And she has not given up her loose ways from the time when she was in Egypt; for when she was young they were her lovers, and by them her young breasts were crushed, and they let loose on her their unclean desire. 9 For this cause I gave her up into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians on whom her desire was fixed. 10 By these her shame was uncovered: they took her sons and daughters and put her to death with the sword: and she became a cause of wonder to women; for they gave her the punishment which was right. 11 And her sister Oholibah saw this, but her desire was even more unmeasured, and her loose behaviour was worse than that of her sister.
  • Hos 5:7 : 7 They have been false to the Lord; they have given birth to strange children; now the new moon will make them waste with their fields.

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  • Hos 7:6-7
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    6 For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire.

    7 They are all heated like an oven, and they put an end to their judges; all their kings have been made low; not one among them makes prayer to me.

  • Hos 7:9-11
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    9 Men from other lands have made waste his strength, and he is not conscious of it; grey hairs have come on him here and there, and he has no knowledge of it.

    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.

  • Hos 4:17
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    17 Ephraim is joined to false gods; let him be.

  • Hos 12:1
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    1 The deceit of Ephraim and the false words of Israel are about me on every side. ...

  • Hos 7:4
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    4 They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened.

  • Hos 8:11
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    11 Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.

  • Hos 8:6-9
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    6 The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.

    7 For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.

    8 Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.

    9 For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.

  • Hos 5:9
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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.

  • Hos 5:11-13
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    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.

    13 When Ephraim saw his disease and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to the great king; but he is not able to make you well or give you help for your wound.

  • Hos 5:3-6
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    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.

  • Hos 11:7-8
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    7 My people are given up to sinning against me; though their voice goes up on high, no one will be lifting them up.

    8 How may I give you up, O Ephraim? how may I be your saviour, O Israel? how may I make you like Admah? how may I do to you as I did to Zeboim? My heart is turned in me, it is soft with pity.

  • Isa 9:21
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    21 Manasseh was making a meal of Ephraim, and Ephraim of Manasseh; and together they were attacking Judah. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Hos 12:7-8
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    7 So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.

    8 As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.

  • Hos 13:12
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    12 The wrongdoing of Ephraim is shut up; his sin is put away in secret.

  • Hos 12:14
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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.

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    9 And all the people will have experience of it, even Ephraim and the men of Samaria, who say in the pride of their uplifted hearts,

  • Hos 13:1
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    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.

  • Hos 9:16-17
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    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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    3 They will have no resting-place in the Lord's land, but Ephraim will go back to Egypt, and they will take unclean food in Assyria.

  • Obad 1:7
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    7 All the men who were united with you have been false to you, driving you out to the edge of the land: the men who were at peace with you have overcome you; they have taken their heritage in your place.

  • Isa 44:19-20
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    19 And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?

    20 As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.

  • Isa 28:3
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    3 The crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim will be crushed under foot;

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    9 The children of Ephraim, armed with bows, were turned back on the day of the fight.

  • Hos 8:14
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    14 For Israel has no memory of his Maker, and has put up the houses of kings; and Judah has made great the number of his walled towns. But I will send a fire on his towns and put an end to his great houses.

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    8 There is great hate against the watchman of Ephraim, the people of my God; as for the prophet, there is a net in all his ways, and hate in the house of his God.

    9 They have gone deep in evil as in the days of Gibeah; he will keep in mind their wrongdoing, he will give them punishment for their sins.

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  • Hos 7:1-2
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    1 When my desire was for the fate of my people to be changed and to make Israel well, then the sin of Ephraim was made clear, and the evil-doing of Samaria; for their ways are false, and the thief comes into the house, while the band of outlaws takes property by force in the streets.

    2 And they do not say to themselves that I keep in mind all their sin; now their evil acts come round them on every side; they are before my face.

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    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.

  • Hos 14:8
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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.

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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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    14 The Lord has sent among them a spirit of error: and by them Egypt is turned out of the right way in all her doings, as a man overcome by wine is uncertain in his steps.

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    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.