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Hosea Chapter 5

Hosea
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Hosea

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The chapter describes the people's growing wickedness and apostasy, as they desecrate the temple and worship idols. It records the king's harsh rule, his cruelty toward the people, and the resulting suffering. The message calls for repentance and a return to God's law.

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(1) Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
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Hosea 4:1Hosea 4:6Hosea 4:7Hosea 6:9Malachi 1:6Malachi 2:1Hosea 7:3Hosea 7:4Hosea 7:5I Kings 14:7I Kings 14:8I Kings 14:9

Related verses (shared words)

I Kings 7:25I Kings 8:29II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 48:10Ezekiel 48:17Zechariah 14:4

(2) And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
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Hosea 6:9Hosea 9:15Jeremiah 6:28Psalms 64:3Psalms 64:4Psalms 64:5Psalms 64:6Psalms 140:1Psalms 140:2Psalms 140:3Psalms 140:4Psalms 140:5

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Jeremiah 4:30I Corinthians 7:30II Corinthians 7:8

(3) I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.
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Amos 3:2Hebrews 4:13Revelation 3:15Hosea 5:9Hosea 5:11Hosea 5:13Hosea 6:4Hosea 8:11Hosea 12:1Hosea 13:1Genesis 48:19Genesis 48:20

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Judges 12:4Isaiah 11:13Hosea 6:10Genesis 48:20Numbers 2:18Judges 7:24

(4) They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.
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Psalms 36:1Psalms 36:2Psalms 36:3Psalms 36:4Psalms 78:8John 3:19John 3:20II Thessalonians 2:11II Thessalonians 2:12Hosea 4:12Jeremiah 50:38Hosea 4:1

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Ezekiel 33:11

(5) And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.
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Hosea 7:10Proverbs 30:13Isaiah 3:9Isaiah 9:9Isaiah 9:10Isaiah 28:1Isaiah 28:2Isaiah 28:3Isaiah 44:9Isaiah 59:12Jeremiah 14:7Matthew 23:31

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Ezekiel 30:6II Samuel 24:14I Chronicles 21:13Esther 6:13Isaiah 31:3Jeremiah 6:15

(6) They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.
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Exodus 10:9Exodus 10:24Exodus 10:25Exodus 10:26Proverbs 15:8Proverbs 21:27Jeremiah 7:4Micah 6:6Micah 6:7Proverbs 1:28Isaiah 1:11Isaiah 1:12

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Ecclesiastes 8:17Deuteronomy 4:29Zephaniah 2:3

(7) They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
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Hosea 6:7Isaiah 48:8Isaiah 59:13Jeremiah 3:20Jeremiah 5:11Nehemiah 13:23Nehemiah 13:24Psalms 144:7Psalms 144:11Malachi 2:11Malachi 2:12Malachi 2:13

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Esther 3:7Isaiah 33:1Isaiah 24:16Genesis 8:5Exodus 12:18II Chronicles 29:17

(8) Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.
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Hosea 8:1Jeremiah 4:5Jeremiah 6:1Joel 2:1Joel 2:15Hosea 9:9Hosea 10:9Judges 19:12Judges 19:13Judges 19:14Judges 19:15Judges 20:4

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Job 19:7Isaiah 58:1Jeremiah 4:5Jeremiah 6:1Judges 7:18

(9) Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
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Hosea 5:12Hosea 5:14Hosea 8:8Hosea 9:11Hosea 9:12Hosea 9:13Hosea 9:14Hosea 9:15Hosea 9:16Hosea 9:17Hosea 11:5Hosea 11:6

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Jeremiah 44:25Jeremiah 49:20Jeremiah 50:45Judges 12:4Isaiah 11:13Jeremiah 12:11

(10) The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
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Deuteronomy 19:14Deuteronomy 27:17II Kings 16:7II Kings 16:8II Kings 16:9II Chronicles 28:16II Chronicles 28:17II Chronicles 28:18II Chronicles 28:19II Chronicles 28:20II Chronicles 28:21II Chronicles 28:22

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Psalms 68:27

(11) Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
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Deuteronomy 28:33II Kings 15:16II Kings 15:17II Kings 15:18II Kings 15:19II Kings 15:20II Kings 15:29Amos 5:11Amos 5:12I Kings 12:26I Kings 12:27I Kings 12:28

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Ecclesiastes 12:6Isaiah 8:9Judges 12:4Isaiah 11:13Numbers 9:23I John 2:7

(12) Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
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Job 13:28Isaiah 50:9Isaiah 51:8Proverbs 12:4Jonah 4:7Mark 9:44Mark 9:45Mark 9:46Mark 9:47Mark 9:48

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Judges 12:4Isaiah 11:13

(13) When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
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Jeremiah 30:12Jeremiah 30:14Micah 1:9Hosea 7:11Hosea 10:6Hosea 12:1II Kings 15:19II Kings 15:29II Kings 16:7II Chronicles 28:16II Chronicles 28:17II Chronicles 28:18

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Judges 12:4Isaiah 11:13Genesis 48:20Numbers 2:18Judges 7:24Isaiah 9:21

(14) For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
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Hosea 13:7Hosea 13:8Job 10:16Psalms 7:2Lamentations 3:10Amos 3:4Amos 3:5Amos 3:6Amos 3:7Amos 3:8Psalms 50:22Micah 5:8

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Numbers 23:24Job 4:10Psalms 17:12Psalms 91:13Isaiah 31:4Amos 3:4

(15) I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
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Hosea 5:6Exodus 25:21Exodus 25:22I Kings 8:10I Kings 8:11I Kings 8:12I Kings 8:13Psalms 132:14Isaiah 26:21Ezekiel 8:6Ezekiel 10:4Ezekiel 11:23

Related verses (shared words)

Zephaniah 2:3Song of Solomon 6:13Deuteronomy 4:29I Chronicles 16:11Psalms 24:6Psalms 27:8

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