(A)I know Ephraim,
And Israel is not hidden from Me;
For now, O Ephraim, (B)you commit harlotry;
Israel is defiled.

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“You(A) only have I known of all the families of the earth;
(B)Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”

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15 (A)“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.

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13 (A)And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are (B)naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

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12 For I (A)know your manifold transgressions
And your mighty sins:
(B)Afflicting the just and taking bribes;
(C)Diverting the poor from justice at the gate.

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Relentless Judgment on Israel

13 When Ephraim spoke, trembling,
He exalted himself in Israel;
But when he offended through Baal worship, he died.

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Ephraim’s Sins Rebuked by God

12 “Ephraim (A)feeds on the wind,
And pursues the east wind;
He daily increases lies and [a]desolation.
(B)Also they make a [b]covenant with the Assyrians,
And (C)oil is carried to Egypt.

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  1. Hosea 12:1 ruin
  2. Hosea 12:1 Or treaty

11 “Because Ephraim has made many altars for sin,
They have become for him altars for sinning.

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Impenitence of Israel and Judah

“O Ephraim, what shall I do to you?
O Judah, what shall I do to you?
For your faithfulness is like a morning cloud,
And like the early dew it goes away.

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13 “When Ephraim saw his sickness,
And Judah saw his (A)wound,
Then Ephraim went (B)to Assyria
And sent to King Jareb;
Yet he cannot cure you,
Nor heal you of your wound.

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11 Ephraim is (A)oppressed and broken in judgment,
Because he willingly walked by (B)human precept.

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Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke;
Among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure.

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17 “Ephraim is joined to idols,
(A)Let him alone.
18 Their drink [a]is rebellion,
They commit harlotry continually.
(B)Her [b]rulers [c]dearly love dishonor.

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Notas al pie

  1. Hosea 4:18 Or has turned aside
  2. Hosea 4:18 Lit. shields
  3. Hosea 4:18 Heb. difficult; a Jewish tradition shamefully love, ‘Give!’

The Older Sister, Samaria

“Oholah played the harlot even though she was Mine;
And she lusted for her lovers, the neighboring (A)Assyrians,
Who were clothed in purple,
Captains and rulers,
All of them desirable young men,
Horsemen riding on horses.
Thus she committed her harlotry with them,
All of them choice men of Assyria;
And with all for whom she lusted,
With all their idols, she defiled herself.
She has never given up her harlotry brought (B)from Egypt,
For in her youth they had lain with her,
Pressed her virgin bosom,
And poured out their immorality upon her.

“Therefore I have delivered her
Into the hand of her lovers,
Into the hand of the (C)Assyrians,
For whom she lusted.
10 They uncovered her nakedness,
Took away her sons and daughters,
And slew her with the sword;
She became a byword among women,
For they had executed judgment on her.

The Younger Sister, Jerusalem

11 “Now (D)although her sister Oholibah saw this, (E)she became more corrupt in her lust than she, and in her harlotry more corrupt than her sister’s harlotry.

12 “She lusted for the neighboring (F)Assyrians,
(G)Captains and rulers,
Clothed most gorgeously,
Horsemen riding on horses,
All of them desirable young men.
13 Then I saw that she was defiled;
Both took the same way.
14 But she increased her harlotry;
She looked at men portrayed on the wall,
Images of (H)Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,
15 Girded with belts around their waists,
Flowing turbans on their heads,
All of them looking like captains,
In the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea,
The land of their nativity.
16 (I)As soon as her eyes saw them,
She lusted for them
And sent (J)messengers to them in Chaldea.

17 “Then the [a]Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love,
And they defiled her with their immorality;
So she was defiled by them, (K)and alienated herself from them.
18 She revealed her harlotry and uncovered her nakedness.
Then (L)I (M)alienated Myself from her,
As I had alienated Myself from her sister.

19 “Yet she multiplied her harlotry
In calling to remembrance the days of her youth,
(N)When she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
20 For she lusted for her [b]paramours,
Whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys,
And whose issue is like the issue of horses.
21 Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness of your youth,
When the (O)Egyptians pressed your bosom
Because of your youthful breasts.

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  1. Ezekiel 23:17 Lit. sons of Babel
  2. Ezekiel 23:20 Illicit lovers

17 (A)The Lord will bring the king of Assyria upon you and your people and your father’s house—days that have not come since the day that (B)Ephraim departed from Judah.”

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(A)For the head of Syria is Damascus,
And the head of Damascus is Rezin.
Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be [a]broken,
So that it will not be a people.
The head of Ephraim is Samaria,
And the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son.
(B)If you will not believe,
Surely you shall not be established.” ’ ”

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  1. Isaiah 7:8 Lit. shattered

Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have plotted evil against you, saying,

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14 (A)“Moreover the Lord will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam; [a]this is the day. What? Even now! 15 For the Lord will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water. He will (B)uproot Israel from this (C)good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them (D)beyond [b]the River, (E)because they have made their [c]wooden images, provoking the Lord to anger. 16 And He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, (F)who sinned and who made Israel sin.”

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  1. 1 Kings 14:14 Or this day and from now on
  2. 1 Kings 14:15 The Euphrates
  3. 1 Kings 14:15 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities

26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom may return to the house of David: 27 If these people (A)go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn back to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah, and they will kill me and go back to Rehoboam king of Judah.”

28 Therefore the king asked advice, (B)made two calves of gold, and said to the people, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. (C)Here are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt!” 29 And he set up one in (D)Bethel, and the other he put in (E)Dan. 30 Now this thing became (F)a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan. 31 He made [a]shrines on the high places, (G)and made priests from every class of people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

32 Jeroboam [b]ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like (H)the feast that was in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did at Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. (I)And at Bethel he installed the priests of the high places which he had made. 33 So he made offerings on the altar which he had made at Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month which he had (J)devised in his own heart. And he [c]ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and offered sacrifices on the altar and (K)burned incense.

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  1. 1 Kings 12:31 Lit. a house; cf. 1 Kin. 13:32, lit. houses
  2. 1 Kings 12:32 instituted
  3. 1 Kings 12:33 instituted

17 His glory is like a (A)firstborn bull,
And his horns like the (B)horns of the wild ox;
Together with them
(C)He shall push the peoples
To the ends of the earth;
(D)They are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
And they are the thousands of Manasseh.”

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19 But his father refused and said, (A)“I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but truly (B)his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations.”

20 So he blessed them that day, saying, (C)“By you Israel will bless, saying, ‘May God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh!’ ” And thus he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

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