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Hosea 3

Hos. 3:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For the children
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
shall abide
yashab (Hebrew #3427)
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Pronounce: yaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
many
rab (Hebrew #7227)
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
KJV usage: (in) abound(-undance, -ant, -antly), captain, elder, enough, exceedingly, full, great(-ly, man, one), increase, long (enough, (time)), (do, have) many(-ifold, things, a time), ((ship-))master, mighty, more, (too, very) much, multiply(-tude), officer, often(-times), plenteous, populous, prince, process (of time), suffice(-lent).
Pronounce: rab
Origin: by contracted from 7231
days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
withouth a king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
, and without a prince
sar (Hebrew #8269)
a head person (of any rank or class)
KJV usage: captain (that had rule), chief (captain), general, governor, keeper, lord, ((-task- ))master, prince(-ipal), ruler, steward.
Pronounce: sar
Origin: from 8323
, and without a sacrifice
zebach (Hebrew #2077)
properly, a slaughter, i.e. the flesh of an animal; by implication, a sacrifice (the victim or the act)
KJV usage: offer(- ing), sacrifice.
Pronounce: zeh'-bakh
Origin: from 2076
, and without θan image
matstsebah (Hebrew #4676)
something stationed, i.e. a column or (memorial stone); by analogy, an idol
KJV usage: garrison, (standing) image, pillar.
Pronounce: mats-tsay-baw'
Origin: feminine (causatively) participle of 5324
, and without an ephod
'ephowd (Hebrew #646)
probably of foreign derivation ; a girdle; specifically the ephod or high-priest's shoulder- piece; also generally, an image
KJV usage: ephod.
Pronounce: ay-fode'
Origin: rarely oephod {ay-fode'}
, and without teraphim
traphiym (Hebrew #8655)
a healer; Teraphim (singular or plural) a family idol
KJV usage: idols(-atry), images, teraphim.
Pronounce: ter-aw-feme'
Origin: plural from 7495
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Hos. 10:3• 3For now they will say, We have no king, for we feared not Jehovah; and a king, what can he do for us? (Hos. 10:3)
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Jer. 15:4‑5• 4And I will give them over to be driven hither and thither amongst all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
 5For who shall have pity upon thee, Jerusalem? and who shall bemoan thee? and who shall turn aside to ask after thy welfare? (Jer. 15:4‑5)
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standing, or, statue, or, pillar,
Isa. 19:19‑20• 19In that day shall there be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to Jehovah:
 20and it shall be for a sign and for a witness to Jehovah of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry unto Jehovah because of the oppressors, and he will send them a saviour and defender, who shall deliver them. (Isa. 19:19‑20)
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Ephod,
Image,
Israel,
King,
Prince; Princess,
Sacrifice,
Teraphim

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Ministry on This Verse

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without a king.
Hos. 10:3• 3For now they will say, We have no king, for we feared not Jehovah; and a king, what can he do for us? (Hos. 10:3)
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Gen. 49:10• 10The sceptre will not depart from Judah, Nor the lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh come, And to him will be the obedience of peoples. (Gen. 49:10)
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Jer. 15:4‑5• 4And I will give them over to be driven hither and thither amongst all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
 5For who shall have pity upon thee, Jerusalem? and who shall bemoan thee? and who shall turn aside to ask after thy welfare? (Jer. 15:4‑5)
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John 19:15• 15But they cried out, Take him away, take him away, crucify him. Pilate says to them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar. (John 19:15)
without a sacrifice.
2 Chron. 15:2• 2And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Jehovah is with you while ye are with him; and if ye seek him he will be found of you, but if ye forsake him he will forsake you. (2 Chron. 15:2)
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Dan. 8:11‑13• 11(And he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and from him the continual sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
 12And a time of trial was appointed unto the continual sacrifice by reason of transgression.) And it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised and prospered.
 13And I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that one who spoke, How long shall be the vision of the continual sacrifice and of the transgression that maketh desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden down under foot? (Dan. 8:11‑13)
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Dan. 9:27• 27And he shall confirm a covenant with the many for one week; and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and because of the protection of abominations there shall be a desolator, even until that the consumption and what is determined shall be poured out upon the desolate. (Dan. 9:27)
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Dan. 12:11• 11And from the time that the continual sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand, two hundred, and ninety days. (Dan. 12:11)
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Matt. 24:1‑2• 1And Jesus went forth and went away from the temple, and his disciples came to him to point out to him the buildings of the temple.
 2And he answering said to them, Do ye not see all these things? Verily I say to you, Not a stone shall be left here upon a stone which shall not be thrown down. (Matt. 24:1‑2)
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Luke 21:24• 24And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the nations until the times of the nations be fulfilled. (Luke 21:24)
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Acts 6:13‑14• 13And they set false witnesses, saying, This man does not cease speaking words against the holy place and the law;
 14for we have heard him saying, This Jesus the Nazaraean shall destroy this place, and change the customs which Moses taught us. (Acts 6:13‑14)
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Heb. 10:26• 26For where we sin wilfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any sacrifice for sins, (Heb. 10:26)
an image.
Heb. a standing, or statue, or pillar.
Isa. 19:19‑20• 19In that day shall there be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to Jehovah:
 20and it shall be for a sign and for a witness to Jehovah of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry unto Jehovah because of the oppressors, and he will send them a saviour and defender, who shall deliver them. (Isa. 19:19‑20)
ephod.
Ex. 28:4• 4And these are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and a cloak, and a checkered vest, a turban, and a girdle; and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may serve me as priest. (Ex. 28:4)
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Lev. 8:7• 7And he put upon him the vest and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the cloak, and put the ephod on him, and he girded him with the girdle of the ephod, and fastened the ephod on him. (Lev. 8:7)
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Judg. 8:27• 27And Gideon made an ephod of them, and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel went thither a whoring after it; and it became a snare to Gideon, and to his house. (Judg. 8:27)
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Judg. 17:5• 5And the man Micah had a house of gods, and made an ephod and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. (Judg. 17:5)
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1 Sam. 2:18• 18And Samuel ministered before Jehovah, a boy girded with a linen ephod. (1 Sam. 2:18)
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1 Sam. 14:3• 3(And Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, Jehovah's priest in Shiloh, wore the ephod.) And the people did not know that Jonathan was gone. (1 Sam. 14:3)
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1 Sam. 21:9• 9And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of terebinths, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; if thou wilt take that, take it; for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that: give it me. (1 Sam. 21:9)
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1 Sam. 22:18• 18And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall on the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and fell on the priests, and put to death that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod. (1 Sam. 22:18)
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1 Sam. 23:6,9• 6And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, he came down with an ephod in his hand.
 9And when David knew that Saul devised mischief against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring the ephod. (1 Sam. 23:6,9)
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1 Sam. 30:7• 7And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, Bring near to me, I pray thee, the ephod. And Abiathar brought the ephod near to David. (1 Sam. 30:7)
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2 Sam. 6:14• 14And David danced before Jehovah with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod. (2 Sam. 6:14)
without teraphim.
Gen. 31:19• 19And Laban had gone to shear his sheep. And Rachel stole the teraphim that belonged to her father. (Gen. 31:19)
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Gen. 31•  (Gen. 31)
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Judg. 17:5• 5And the man Micah had a house of gods, and made an ephod and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. (Judg. 17:5)
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Judg. 18:17‑24• 17And the five men that had gone to spy out the land went up, entered in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image; and the priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men that were girded with weapons of war.
 18And these came into Micah's house, and took the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. And the priest said to them, What do ye?
 19And they said to him, Hold thy peace, lay thy hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for thee to be a priest for the house of one man, or to be priest for a tribe and a family in Israel?
 20Then the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.
 21And they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the baggage before them.
 22They were already far from the house of Micah, when the men that were in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.
 23And they cried to the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said to Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?
 24And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away; and what have I more? and what is this that ye say to me, What aileth thee? (Judg. 18:17‑24)
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2 Kings 23:24• 24Moreover the necromancers and the soothsayers, and the teraphim and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah took away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkijah the priest had found in the house of Jehovah. (2 Kings 23:24)
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2 Kings 23•  (2 Kings 23)
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Ezek. 20:32• 32And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, in serving wood and stone. (Ezek. 20:32)
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Ezek. 21:21• 21For the king of Babylon standeth at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shaketh his arrows, he inquireth of the teraphim, he looketh in the liver. (Ezek. 21:21)
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Ezek. 21•  (Ezek. 21)
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Mic. 5:11‑14• 11And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and overthrow all thy strongholds.
 12And I will cut off sorceries out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no soothsayers.
 13Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy statues out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more bow down to the work of thy hands.
 14And I will pluck up thine Asherahs out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy cities. (Mic. 5:11‑14)
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Zech. 13:2• 2And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered; and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land. (Zech. 13:2)
• Hosea in verse 4 describes exactly their present state, as it has also been for many centuries: neither altar of God nor idolatry, no consultation by the true priests or by idols. (“Hosea 3” by W. Kelly)
• “For the sons of Israel shall abide many days.” Hosea 3 furnishes the solemn evidence that the humiliation of Israel was to involve a most marked and peculiar isolation, and that it was not to be a passing visitation but a prolonged state. (“Hosea 3” by W. Kelly)
• They should be without an ephod, the distinctive priestly apparel. (“Hosea 3” by W. Kelly)
• “Without a sacrifice,” their sacred as well as civil polity was at an end; for what is the law without a sacrifice? Thus it is a state of things far more true now since the rejection of the Messiah, than up to that transitional period when Messiah came to them. (“Hosea 3” by W. Kelly)
• The Targum and the Rabbinical expositors own that David here means the Messiah. (“Hosea 3” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without statuea, and without ephod and teraphim.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "pillar," "column," as 1 Kings 14.23; Isa. 19.19, etc.