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Hosea 5:3 KJV
Hosea · chapter 5 · verse 3
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.Hosea 5:3 · King James Version
Hosea 5:3 in context
1Hear 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.
2And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.
4They 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.
5And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- whoredomzânâhto commit adulteryH2181 →
- EphraimʼEphrayimEphrajim, a son of JosephH669 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- knowyâdaʻto knowH3045 →
- hidkâchadto secrete, by act or wordH3582 →
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Here, I. All orders and degrees of men are cited to appear and answer to such things as shall be laid to their charge (Hos 5:1): Hear you this, O priests! whether in holy orders (as those in Judah, and perhaps many in Israel too, for in the ten tribes there were divers cities of priests and Levites, who, it is…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-7