10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

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10 I have seen a horrible(A) thing in Israel:
    There Ephraim is given to prostitution,
    Israel is defiled.(B)

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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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I know all about Ephraim;
    Israel is not hidden(A) from me.
Ephraim, you have now turned to prostitution;
    Israel is corrupt.(B)

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14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness; they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

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14 And among the prophets of Jerusalem
    I have seen something horrible:(A)
    They commit adultery and live a lie.(B)
They strengthen the hands of evildoers,(C)
    so that not one of them turns from their wickedness.(D)
They are all like Sodom(E) to me;
    the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.”(F)

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30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;

31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

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30 “A horrible(A) and shocking thing
    has happened in the land:
31 The prophets prophesy lies,(B)
    the priests(C) rule by their own authority,
and my people love it this way.
    But what will you do in the end?(D)

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17 Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.

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17 Ephraim is joined to idols;
    leave him alone!

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11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

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     11 to prostitution;(A)
old wine(B) and new wine
    take away their understanding.(C)

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And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,

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“Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was still mine; and she lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians(A)—warriors(B)

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13 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.

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13 Therefore this is what the Lord says:

“Inquire among the nations:
    Who has ever heard anything like this?(A)
A most horrible(B) thing has been done
    by Virgin(C) Israel.

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The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

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Unfaithful Israel

During the reign of King Josiah,(A) the Lord said to me, “Have you seen what faithless(B) Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree(C) and has committed adultery(D) there.

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12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord.

13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

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12 Be appalled at this, you heavens,
    and shudder with great horror,”
declares the Lord.
13 “My people have committed two sins:
They have forsaken(A) me,
    the spring of living water,(B)
and have dug their own cisterns,
    broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

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For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

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Israel Exiled Because of Sin

All this took place because the Israelites had sinned(A) against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of Egypt(B) from under the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods

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30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger.

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30 This happened because of the sins(A) Jeroboam had committed and had caused(B) Israel to commit, and because he aroused the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel.

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But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:

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But Rehoboam rejected(A) the advice the elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him.

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