Verse 9
For they are gone vp to Asshur: they are as a wilde asse alone by himselfe: Ephraim hath hired louers.
Referenced Verses
- Jer 2:24 : 24 And as a wilde asse, vsed to the wildernesse, that snuffeth vp the winde by occasion at her pleasure: who can turne her backe? all they that seeke her, will not wearie themselues, but wil finde her in her moneth.
- Hos 5:13 : 13 When Ephraim sawe his sickenes, and Iudah his wound, then went Ephraim vnto Asshur, and sent vnto King Iareb: yet coulde hee not heale you, nor cure you of your wound.
- Hos 7:11 : 11 Ephraim also is like a doue deceiued, without heart: they call to Egypt: they go to Asshur.
- Ezek 16:33-34 : 33 They giue giftes to all other whores, but thou giuest giftes vnto all thy louers, and rewardest them, that they may come vnto thee on euery side for thy fornication. 34 And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy fornications, neither the like fornication shall be after thee: for in that thou giuest a rewarde, and no reward is giuen vnto thee, therefore thou art contrary.
- Ezek 23:5-9 : 5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine, and she was set on fire with her louers, to wit, with the Assyrians her neighbours, 6 Which were clothed with blewe silke, both captaines and princes: they were all pleasant yong men, and horsemen riding vpon horses. 7 Thus she committed her whoredome with them, euen with all them that were the chosen men of Asshur, and with all on whome she doted, and defiled her selfe with all their idoles. 8 Neither left she her fornications, learned of the Egyptians: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginitie, and powred their whoredome vpon her. 9 Wherefore I deliuered her into the hands of her louers, euen into the hands of the Assyrians, vpon whome she doted.
- Hos 2:5-7 : 5 For their mother hath plaied the harlot: she that conceiued them, hath done shamefully: for shee said, I will goe after my louers that giue me my bread and my water, my wooll and my flaxe, mine oyle and my drinke. 6 Therefore beholde, I will stoope thy way with thornes, and make an hedge, that shee shall not finde her pathes. 7 Though shee followe after her louers, yet shall shee not come at them: though shee seeke them, yet shall shee not finde them: then shall she say, I will goe and returne to my first husbande: for at that time was I better then nowe.
- Hos 2:10 : 10 And now will I discouer her lewdnes in the sight of her louers, and no man shall deliuer her out of mine hand.
- Hos 12:1 : 1 Ephraim is fed with the winde, and followeth after the East winde: hee increaseth daily lies and destruction, & they do make a couenant with Asshur, and oyle is caried into Egypt.
- 2 Kgs 15:19 : 19 Then Pul the king of Asshur came against the land: & Menahem gaue Pul a thousand talents of siluer, that his hande might bee with him, & establish the kingdome in his hand.
- Job 39:5-8 : 5 (39:8) Who hath set the wilde asse at libertie? or who hath loosed the bondes of the wilde asse? 6 (39:9) It is I which haue made the wildernesse his house, and the salt places his dwellings. 7 (39:10) He derideth the multitude of the citie: he heareth not the crie of the driuer. 8 (39:11) He seeketh out the mountaine for his pasture, and searcheth after euery greene thing.
- Isa 30:6 : 6 The burden of the beasts of the South, in a land of trouble and anguish, from whence shall come the yong and olde lyon, the viper and fierie flying serpent against them that shall beare their riches vpon the shoulders of the coltes, and their treasures vpon the bounches of the camels, to a people that cannot profite.