Hosea 9:3

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They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

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  • Ezek 4:13 : 13 The Lord said, 'In this way the people of Israel will eat their defiled bread among the nations where I will drive them.'
  • Hos 8:13 : 13 They offer sacrifices as gifts for me and eat the meat, but the LORD does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they will return to Egypt.
  • Lev 25:23 : 23 The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine; you are only foreigners and residents with me.
  • Jer 2:7 : 7 I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and its bounty. But you came and defiled my land. You made my inheritance detestable.
  • Jer 16:18 : 18 I will first repay them double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the lifeless forms of their vile images and have filled My inheritance with their abominations.
  • Dan 1:8 : 8 But Daniel resolved in his heart not to defile himself with the royal food or wine. So he requested permission from the chief official not to defile himself.
  • Hos 7:11 : 11 Ephraim is like a dove—easily deceived, without understanding. They call to Egypt; they go to Assyria.
  • Deut 4:26 : 26 I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will surely be quickly destroyed from the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not extend your days there but will be utterly destroyed.
  • Deut 28:63 : 63 Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so it will please Him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.
  • 1 Kgs 9:7 : 7 then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them, and I will reject this temple I have consecrated for My name. Israel will then become a proverb and an object of ridicule among all peoples.
  • 2 Kgs 17:6 : 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the Israelites to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor River, and in the cities of Media.
  • Isa 11:15-16 : 15 The LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt. With a scorching wind, He will wave His hand over the River and divide it into seven streams, allowing people to cross in sandals. 16 There will be a highway for the remnant of His people who remain from Assyria, as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt.
  • Lev 18:28 : 28 Make sure the land does not vomit you out when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was there before you.
  • Lev 20:22 : 22 You shall faithfully keep all my statutes and all my judgments and obey them, so that the land to which I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.
  • Deut 28:68 : 68 The LORD will bring you back to Egypt in ships, in the way I said you would never see again. There, you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.
  • Josh 23:15 : 15 But just as all the good things the LORD your God promised you have come to pass, so too the LORD will bring upon you the bad things He threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.
  • Hos 9:6 : 6 Even if they escape destruction, Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them. Weeds will inherit their treasures of silver, and thorns will overrun their tents.
  • Hos 11:5 : 5 They will not return to the land of Egypt, but Assyria will rule over them because they refused to return to Me.
  • Hos 11:11 : 11 They will come trembling like birds from Egypt, like doves from the land of Assyria. I will settle them in their homes, declares the LORD.
  • Mic 2:10 : 10 Get up and leave, for this is not your resting place! Because it is defiled, it brings destruction—a grievous destruction.
  • Acts 10:14 : 14 But Peter said, 'By no means, Lord! For I have never eaten anything common or unclean.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Hos 9:4-6
    3 verses
    78%

    4They will no longer pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him. Their sacrifices will be like the bread of mourners; all who eat it will become defiled. Their food will only satisfy their own appetite; it will not enter the house of the LORD.

    5What will you do on the day of your appointed festival, on the day of the LORD’s feast?

    6Even if they escape destruction, Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them. Weeds will inherit their treasures of silver, and thorns will overrun their tents.

  • 13They offer sacrifices as gifts for me and eat the meat, but the LORD does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they will return to Egypt.

  • Hos 11:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    5They will not return to the land of Egypt, but Assyria will rule over them because they refused to return to Me.

    6A sword will whirl through their cities; it will destroy their gates and consume them because of their plans.

  • 2The threshing floor and the winepress will not provide for them, and the new wine will fail them.

  • Ezek 4:12-13
    2 verses
    77%

    12Eat it as you would a barley cake, baking it over human dung in their sight.

    13The Lord said, 'In this way the people of Israel will eat their defiled bread among the nations where I will drive them.'

  • 17The Lord will bring upon you, your people, and your father's house a time unlike any since Ephraim separated from Judah—he will bring the king of Assyria.

  • Isa 19:23-24
    2 verses
    71%

    23In that day, there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt, and the Egyptians to Assyria, and the Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together.

    24In that day, Israel will join a threefold alliance with Egypt and Assyria—a blessing upon the earth.

  • 15“Go away! You are unclean!” people shouted at them. “Away, away! Do not touch us!” When they fled and wandered, the nations said, “They can stay here no longer.”

  • 10I will bring them back from the land of Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to the lands of Gilead and Lebanon, but there will not be enough room for them.

  • 6With their flocks and herds they will go to seek the Lord, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.

  • 11Ephraim is like a dove—easily deceived, without understanding. They call to Egypt; they go to Assyria.

  • 17My God will reject them because they have not obeyed Him; they will become wanderers among the nations.

  • 1Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit. But Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.

  • 15'I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword after them until I have finished them off.'

  • 13The land will become desolate because of its inhabitants, due to the fruit of their deeds.

  • 27You will never return to the land you long to go back to.

  • 11'that you commanded through your servants the prophets, saying: "The land you are entering to possess is a land defiled by the practices of its peoples and their detestable acts that have filled it with impurity from one end to the other."'

  • 11They will come trembling like birds from Egypt, like doves from the land of Assyria. I will settle them in their homes, declares the LORD.

  • 38You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.

  • 19Must My flock feed on what you have trampled and drink what you have muddied with your feet?

  • 9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity; He will punish their sins.

  • 18When they arrive there, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations.

  • Hos 8:8-9
    2 verses
    69%

    8Israel is swallowed up; now they are among the nations like something worthless.

    9For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has sold herself to lovers.

  • 4Their deeds do not allow them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the Lord.

  • 14Instead, you say, 'No, we will go to the land of Egypt where we will not see war, hear the sound of the trumpet, or suffer hunger for bread. There we will stay.'

  • 6It will also be carried off to Assyria as a tribute for the great king. Ephraim will be disgraced, Israel will be ashamed because of its own counsel.

  • 17All who are determined to go to Egypt to settle there will die by the sword, famine, and plague. Not one of them will survive or escape the disaster I will bring upon them.

  • 17Then lambs will graze as in their own pasture, and strangers will eat in the ruins of the rich.

  • 14You will eat but not be satisfied, and your emptiness will remain within you. You will store up but not save, and what you do save, I will give over to the sword.

  • 19I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan; his soul will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and Gilead.

  • 16There will be a highway for the remnant of His people who remain from Assyria, as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt.

  • 14I will restore the fortunes of Egypt and bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin. There they will be a lowly kingdom.

  • 25You must not accept such animals from the hand of a foreigner to offer as the food of your God. They are deformed and have defects; they will not be accepted on your behalf.

  • 8Ephraim mixes himself among the nations; Ephraim is like a flatbread not turned over.

  • 9Ephraim says, 'Surely I have become rich; I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they cannot find in me iniquity which would be sin.'

  • 10They will eat but not be satisfied; they will commit fornication but not multiply, because they have abandoned the LORD to pursue their own ways.

  • Jer 44:12-13
    2 verses
    67%

    12I will take the remnant of Judah who were determined to go to the land of Egypt to live there, and they will all meet their end in the land of Egypt. They will fall by the sword and perish by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by the sword and famine. They will become an object of cursing and astonishment, a curse and a reproach.

    13And I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt as I punished Jerusalem, with the sword, famine, and pestilence.

  • 9Ephraim will become a desolation on the day of punishment. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known what is certain.

  • 8Whoever eats it will bear the consequences of their sin, because they have treated what is sacred to the LORD with contempt. That person must be cut off from their people.

  • 3Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of his harvest. All who tried to devour it were held guilty; disaster came upon them,’ declares the LORD.

  • 10Get up and leave, for this is not your resting place! Because it is defiled, it brings destruction—a grievous destruction.

  • Hos 5:12-13
    2 verses
    67%

    12I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like rot to the house of Judah.

    13When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to the great king for help. But he cannot heal you or cure your wound.