Hosea 5:3

The Priests Are A Snare

² The revolters have gone deep in depravity,
But I will chastise all of them.
³ I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me;
For now, O Ephraim, you have played the harlot,
Israel has defiled itself.
⁴ Their deeds will not allow them
To return to their God.
For a spirit of harlotry is within them,
And they do not know the Lord.

Played the Harlot

Ephraim

Israel

Amos 3:2

“You only have I chosen among all the families of the earth;
Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”

Genesis 48:19-20

But his 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 shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations.”

Deuteronomy 33:17

“As the firstborn of his ox, majesty is his,
And his horns are the horns of the wild ox;
With them he will push the peoples,
All at once, to the ends of the earth.
And those are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
And those are the thousands of Manasseh.”

1 Kings 12:26-33

Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to the house of David.

1 Kings 14:14-16

Moreover, the Lord will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam this day and from now on.

Isaiah 7:5

Because Aram, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has planned evil against you, saying,

Isaiah 7:8-9

For the head of Aram is Damascus and the head of Damascus is Rezin (now within another 65 years Ephraim will be shattered, so that it is no longer a people),

Isaiah 7:17

The Lord will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house such days as have never come since the day that Ephraim separated from Judah, the king of Assyria.”

Ezekiel 23:5-21

“Oholah played the harlot while she was Mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians, her neighbors,

Hosea 4:17-18

Ephraim is joined to idols;
Let him alone.

Hosea 5:9

Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke;
Among the tribes of Israel I declare what is sure.

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment,
Because he was determined to follow man’s command.

Hosea 5:13

When Ephraim saw his sickness,
And Judah his wound,
Then Ephraim went to Assyria
And sent to King Jareb.
But he is unable to heal you,
Or to cure you of your wound.

Hosea 6:4

What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?
What shall I do with you, O Judah?
For your loyalty is like a morning cloud
And like the dew which goes away early.

Hosea 8:11

Since Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin,
They have become altars of sinning for him.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim feeds on wind,
And pursues the east wind continually;
He multiplies lies and violence.
Moreover, he makes a covenant with Assyria,
And oil is carried to Egypt.

Hosea 13:1

When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling.
He exalted himself in Israel,
But through Baal he did wrong and died.

Amos 5:12

For I know your transgressions are many and your sins are great,
You who distress the righteous and accept bribes
And turn aside the poor in the gate.

Hebrews 4:13

And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.

Revelation 3:15

‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot.