Hosea 5:1
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Impending Judgment on Israel and Judah
5 “Hear this, O priests!
Take heed, O house of Israel!
Give ear, O house of the king!
For [a]yours is the judgment,
Because (A)you have been a snare to Mizpah
And a net spread on Tabor.
Footnotes
- Hosea 5:1 Or to you
Hosea 9:8
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8 The (A)watchman of Ephraim is with my God;
But the prophet is a [a]fowler’s snare in all his ways—
Enmity in the house of his God.
Footnotes
- Hosea 9:8 One who catches birds in a trap or snare
Micah 7:2
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2 The (A)faithful[a] man has perished from the earth,
And there is no one upright among men.
They all lie in wait for blood;
(B)Every man hunts his brother with a net.
Footnotes
- Micah 7:2 Or loyal
Micah 3:9
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9 Now hear this,
You heads of the house of Jacob
And rulers of the house of Israel,
Who abhor justice
And [a]pervert all equity,
Footnotes
- Micah 3:9 Lit. twist
Hosea 6:9
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9 As bands of robbers lie in wait for a man,
So the company of (A)priests (B)murder on the way to Shechem;
Surely they commit (C)lewdness.
Judges 4:6
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6 Then she sent and called for (A)Barak the son of Abinoam from (B)Kedesh in Naphtali, and said to him, “Has not the Lord God of Israel commanded, ‘Go and [a]deploy troops at Mount (C)Tabor; take with you ten thousand men of the sons of Naphtali and of the sons of Zebulun;
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- Judges 4:6 march
Malachi 2:1
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Habakkuk 1:15-17
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15 They take up all of them with a hook,
They catch them in their net,
And gather them in their dragnet.
Therefore they rejoice and are glad.
16 Therefore (A)they sacrifice to their net,
And burn incense to their dragnet;
Because by them their share is [a]sumptuous
And their food plentiful.
17 Shall they therefore empty their net,
And continue to slay nations without pity?
Footnotes
- Habakkuk 1:16 Lit. fat
Amos 7:9
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9 (A)The [a]high places of Isaac shall be desolate,
And the [b]sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste.
(B)I will rise with the sword against the house of Jeroboam.”
Hosea 10:15
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15 Thus it shall be done to you, O Bethel,
Because of your great wickedness.
At dawn the king of Israel
Shall be cut off utterly.
Hosea 9:11-17
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11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird—
No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!
12 Though they bring up their children,
Yet I will bereave them to the last man.
Yes, (A)woe to them when I depart from them!
13 Just (B)as I saw Ephraim like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place,
So Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.”
14 Give them, O Lord—
What will You give?
Give them (C)a miscarrying womb
And dry breasts!
15 “All their wickedness is in (D)Gilgal,
For there I hated them.
Because of the evil of their deeds
I will drive them from My house;
I will love them no more.
(E)All their princes are rebellious.
16 Ephraim is (F)stricken,
Their root is dried up;
They shall bear no fruit.
Yes, were they to bear children,
I would kill the darlings of their womb.”
17 My God will (G)cast them away,
Because they did not obey Him;
And they shall be (H)wanderers among the nations.
Hosea 4:1
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God’s Charge Against Israel
4 Hear the word of the Lord,
You children of Israel,
For the Lord brings a (A)charge[a] against the inhabitants of the land:
“There is no truth or mercy
Or (B)knowledge of God in the land.
Footnotes
- Hosea 4:1 A legal complaint
2 Chronicles 21:12-15
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12 And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying,
Thus says the Lord God of your father David:
Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, or in the ways of Asa king of Judah, 13 but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have (A)made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to (B)play the harlot like the (C)harlotry of the house of Ahab, and also have (D)killed your brothers, those of your father’s household, who were better than yourself, 14 behold, the Lord will strike your people with a serious affliction—your children, your wives, and all your possessions; 15 and you will become very sick with a (E)disease of your intestines, until your intestines come out by reason of the sickness, day by day.
1 Kings 21:18-22
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18 “Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, (A)who lives in Samaria. There he is, in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone down to take possession of it. 19 You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Have you murdered and also taken possession?” ’ And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord: (B)“In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs shall lick your blood, even yours.” ’ ”
20 So Ahab said to Elijah, (C)“Have you found me, O my enemy?”
And he answered, “I have found you, because (D)you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the Lord: 21 ‘Behold, (E)I will bring calamity on you. I will take away your (F)posterity, and will cut off from Ahab (G)every male in Israel, both (H)bond and free. 22 I will make your house like the house of (I)Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of (J)Baasha the son of Ahijah, because of the provocation with which you have provoked Me to anger, and made Israel sin.’
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Malachi 1:6
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Polluted Offerings
6 “A son (A)honors his father,
And a servant his master.
(B)If then I am the Father,
Where is My honor?
And if I am a Master,
Where is My reverence?
Says the Lord of hosts
To you priests who despise My name.
(C)Yet you say, ‘In what way have we despised Your name?’
Micah 3:1
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Wicked Rulers and Prophets
3 And I said:
“Hear now, O heads of Jacob,
And you (A)rulers of the house of Israel:
(B)Is it not for you to know justice?
Hosea 13:8
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8 I will meet them (A)like a bear deprived of her cubs;
I will tear open their rib cage,
And there I will devour them like a lion.
The [a]wild beast shall tear them.
Footnotes
- Hosea 13:8 Lit. beast of the field
Hosea 4:6-7
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6 (A)My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from being priest for Me;
(B)Because you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.
7 “The more they increased,
The more they sinned against Me;
(C)I[a] will change [b]their glory into shame.
Jeremiah 46:18
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18 “As I live,” says the King,
(A)Whose name is the Lord of hosts,
“Surely as Tabor is among the mountains
And as Carmel by the sea, so he shall come.
Hosea 7:3-5
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4 “They(C) are all adulterers.
Like an oven heated by a baker—
He ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough,
Until it is leavened.
5 In the day of our king
Princes have made him sick, [a]inflamed with (D)wine;
He stretched out his hand with scoffers.
Footnotes
- Hosea 7:5 Lit. with the heat of
Jeremiah 22:1-9
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Prophecies Against the Kings of Judah
22 Thus says the Lord: “Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and there speak this word, 2 and say, (A)‘Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, you who sit on the throne of David, you and your servants and your people who enter these gates! 3 Thus says the Lord: (B)“Execute[a] judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong and do no violence to the stranger, the (C)fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place. 4 For if you indeed do this thing, (D)then shall enter the gates of this house, riding on horses and in chariots, accompanied by servants and people, kings who sit on the throne of David. 5 But if you will not [b]hear these words, (E)I swear by Myself,” says the Lord, “that this house shall become a desolation.” ’ ”
6 For thus says the Lord to the house of the king of Judah:
“You are (F)Gilead to Me,
The head of Lebanon;
Yet I surely will make you a wilderness,
Cities which are not inhabited.
7 I will prepare destroyers against you,
Everyone with his weapons;
They shall cut down (G)your choice cedars
(H)And cast them into the fire.
8 And many nations will pass by this city; and everyone will say to his neighbor, (I)‘Why has the Lord done so to this great city?’ 9 Then they will answer, (J)‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshiped other gods and served them.’ ”
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- Jeremiah 22:3 Dispense justice
- Jeremiah 22:5 Obey
Jeremiah 13:18
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18 Say to (A)the king and to the queen mother,
“Humble yourselves;
Sit down,
For your rule shall collapse, the crown of your glory.”
1 Kings 14:7-16
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7 Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel: (A)“Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you ruler over My people Israel, 8 and (B)tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you; and yet you have not been as My servant David, (C)who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only what was right in My eyes; 9 but you have done more evil than all who were before you, (D)for you have gone and made for yourself other gods and molded images to provoke Me to anger, and (E)have cast Me behind your back— 10 therefore behold! (F)I will bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam, and (G)will cut off from Jeroboam every male in Israel, (H)bond and free; I will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as one takes away refuse until it is all gone. 11 The dogs shall eat (I)whoever belongs to Jeroboam and dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat whoever dies in the field; for the Lord has spoken!” ’ 12 Arise therefore, go to your own house. (J)When your feet enter the city, the child shall die. 13 And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he is the only one of Jeroboam who shall [a]come to the grave, because in him (K)there is found something good toward the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
14 (L)“Moreover the Lord will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam; [b]this is the day. What? Even now! 15 For the Lord will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water. He will (M)uproot Israel from this (N)good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them (O)beyond [c]the River, (P)because they have made their [d]wooden images, provoking the Lord to anger. 16 And He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, (Q)who sinned and who made Israel sin.”
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- 1 Kings 14:13 Be buried
- 1 Kings 14:14 Or this day and from now on
- 1 Kings 14:15 The Euphrates
- 1 Kings 14:15 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities
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