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Hos. 5:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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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know.

Amos 3:2• ²You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. (Amos 3:2)

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Heb. 4:13• ¹³And not a creature is unmanifest in his sight; but all things [are] naked and laid bare to his eyes with whom [is] our account. (Heb. 4:13)

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Rev. 3:15• ¹⁵I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot; I would thou wert cold or hot. (Rev. 3:15)

Ephraim.

Hos. 5:9,11,13• ⁹Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
¹¹{i}Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because in selfwill he walked after the commandment of man.{/i}
¹³When 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 (Hos. 5:9,11,13)

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Hos. 6:4• ⁴O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. (Hos. 6:4)

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Hos. 8:11• ¹¹Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, many altars shall be unto him to sin. (Hos. 8:11)

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Hos. 12:1• ¹Ephraim feedeth on wind and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt. (Hos. 12:1)

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Hos. 13:1• ¹{i}When Ephraim spoke there was trembling, he exalted himself in Israel{/i}; {i}but{/i} when he offended in Baal, he died. (Hos. 13:1)

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Gen. 48:19‑20• ¹⁹But his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know: he also will become a people and he also will be great; but truly his younger brother will be greater than he; and his seed will become a fullness of nations.
²⁰And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee will Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and Manasseh; and he set Ephraim before Manasseh. (Gen. 48:19‑20)

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Deut. 33:17• ¹⁷The first-born of his herd is honour to him,{HR}And his horns the horns of a buffalo:{HR}With them he shall push peoples together to the ends of the earth;{HR}And they are the myriads of Ephraim,{HR}And they are the thousands of Manasseh. (Deut. 33:17)

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Isa. 7:5,8‑9,17• ⁵Inasmuch as Syria hath taken evil counsel against thee, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying,
⁸For the head of Syria [is] Damascus, and the head of Damascus [is] Rezin; and within sixty-five years shall Ephraim be broken, so as to be not a people.
⁹And the head of Ephraim [is] Samaria, and the head of Samaria [is] Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
¹⁷Jehovah will bring upon thee and upon thy father's house days which have not come since the day when Ephraim turned away from Judah—the king of Assyria. (Isa. 7:5,8‑9,17)

thou.

Hos. 4:17‑18• ¹⁷Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
¹⁸Their drink is turned; her rulers greatly love infamy; {i}her great men passionately love their shame.{/i} (Hos. 4:17‑18)

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1 Kings 12:26‑33• ²⁶{i}And{/i} Jeroboam said in heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David.
²⁷If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
²⁸Whereupon the king took counsel and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
²⁹And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
³⁰And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.
³¹And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.
³²Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made; and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.
³³So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel, the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which, he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel; and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense. (1 Kings 12:26‑33)

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1 Kings 14:14‑16• ¹⁴{i}And Jehovah shall raise up for himself a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day; and what? …even now.{/i}
¹⁵{i}And Jehovah will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their Asherahs, provoking Jehovah to anger.{/i}
¹⁶And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin. (1 Kings 14:14‑16)

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Ezek. 23:5‑21• ⁵{i}And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians her neighbours,{/i}
⁶{i}clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them attractive young men, horsemen riding upon horses.{/i}
⁷{i}And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, all of them the choice of the children of Asshur; and with all after whom she lusted, with all their idols she defiled herself.{/i}
⁸{i}Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt; for in her youth they had lain with her, and had handled the breasts of her virginity, and poured their fornication upon her.{/i}
⁹{i}Therefore I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the children of Asshur, after whom she lusted.{/i}
¹⁰{i}These discovered her nakedness, they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword; and she became a name among women; and they executed judgment upon her.{/i}
¹¹{i}And her sister Oholibah saw this, and{/i} was more corrupt in her inordinate love than {i}she, and in her fornications more than{/i} {i}the whoredoms of her sister.{/i}
¹²{i}She lusted after the children of Asshur her neighbours, governors and rulers, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them attractive young men.{/i}
¹³Then I saw that she was defiled, that they both took one way.
¹⁴{i}And she increased her fornications; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,{/i}
¹⁵{i}girded with girdles upon their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them captains in appearance, after the likeness of the children of Babylon, of Chaldea, the land of their nativity.{/i}
¹⁶{i}And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she lusted after them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.{/i}
¹⁷{i}And the children of Babylon came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their fornication; she too defiled herself with them, and her soul was alienated from them.{/i}
¹⁸{i}And she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness; and{/i} my mind was alienated from her, as my mind was alienated from her sister.
¹⁹{i}Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she played the harlot in the land of Egypt;{/i}
²⁰{i}and she lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is as the issue of horses.{/i}
²¹{i}And thou didst look back to the lewdness of thy youth, in the handling of thy teats by the Egyptians, for the breasts of thy youth.{/i} (Ezek. 23:5‑21)

J. N. Darby Translation

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, Ephraim, thou hast committed whoredom; Israel is defiled.

W. Kelly Translation

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, Ephraim, thou hast committed whoredom; Israel is defiled.

WK Verse Note

(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)