Bible Cross References
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Amos 3:2
"Of all the nations on earth, you are the only one I have known and cared for. That is what makes your sins so terrible, and that is why I must punish you for them."
Hebrews 4:13
There is nothing that can be hid from God; everything in all creation is exposed and lies open before his eyes. And it is to him that we must all give an account of ourselves.
Revelation 3:15
I know what you have done; I know that you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were either one or the other!
Ephraim
Hosea 5:9
The day of punishment is coming, and Israel will be ruined. People of Israel, this will surely happen!
Hosea 5:11
Israel is suffering oppression; she has lost land that was rightfully hers, because she insisted on going for help to those who had none to give.
Hosea 5:13
"When Israel saw how sick she was and when Judah saw her own wounds, then Israel went to Assyria to ask the great emperor for help, but he could not cure them or heal their wounds.
Hosea 6:4
But the LORD says, "Israel and Judah, what am I going to do with you? Your love for me disappears as quickly as morning mist; it is like dew, that vanishes early in the day.
Hosea 8:11
"The more altars the people of Israel build for removing sin, the more places they have for sinning!
Hosea 12:1
Everything that the people of Israel do from morning to night is useless and destructive. Treachery and acts of violence increase among them. They make treaties with Assyria and do business with Egypt."
Hosea 13:1
In the past, when the tribe of Ephraim spoke, the other tribes of Israel were afraid; they looked up to Ephraim. But the people sinned by worshiping Baal, and for this they will die.
Genesis 48:19
His father refused, saying, "I know, son, I know. Manasseh's descendants will also become a great people. But his younger brother will be greater than he, and his descendants will become great nations."
Genesis 48:20
So he blessed them that day, saying, "The Israelites will use your names when they pronounce blessings. They will say, 'May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.' " In this way Jacob put Ephraim before Manasseh.
Deuteronomy 33:17
Joseph has the strength of a bull, The horns of a wild ox. His horns are Manasseh's thousands And Ephraim's ten thousands. With them he gores the nations And pushes them to the ends of the earth."
Isaiah 7:5
Syria, together with Israel and its king, has made a plot.
Isaiah 7:8
Why? Because Syria is no stronger than Damascus, its capital city, and Damascus is no stronger than King Rezin. As for Israel, within sixty-five years it will be too shattered to survive as a nation.
Isaiah 7:9
Israel is no stronger than Samaria, its capital city, and Samaria is no stronger than King Pekah. "If your faith is not enduring, you will not endure."
Isaiah 7:17
"The LORD is going to bring on you, on your people, and on the whole royal family, days of trouble worse than any that have come since the kingdom of Israel separated from Judah---he is going to bring the king of Assyria.
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Hosea 4:17
The people of Israel are under the spell of idols. Let them go their own way.
Hosea 4:18
After drinking much wine, they delight in their prostitution, preferring disgrace to honor.
1 Kings 12:26-33
26
He said to himself, "As things are now, if my people go to Jerusalem and offer sacrifices to the LORD in the Temple there, they will transfer their allegiance to King Rehoboam of Judah and will kill me."
28
After thinking it over, he made two bull-calves of gold and said to his people, "You have been going long enough to Jerusalem to worship. People of Israel, here are your gods who brought you out of Egypt!"
29
He placed one of the gold bull-calves in Bethel and the other in Dan.
30
And so the people sinned, going to worship in Bethel and in Dan.
31
Jeroboam also built places of worship on hilltops, and he chose priests from families who were not of the tribe of Levi.
32
Jeroboam also instituted a religious festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival in Judah. On the altar in Bethel he offered sacrifices to the gold bull-calves he had made, and he placed there in Bethel the priests serving at the places of worship he had built.
33
And on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, the day that he himself had set, he went to Bethel and offered a sacrifice on the altar in celebration of the festival he had instituted for the people of Israel.
1 Kings 14:14-16
14
The LORD is going to place a king over Israel who will put an end to Jeroboam's dynasty.
15
The LORD will punish Israel, and she will shake like a reed shaking in a stream. He will uproot the people of Israel from this good land which he gave to their ancestors, and he will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they have aroused his anger by making idols of the goddess Asherah.
16
The LORD will abandon Israel because Jeroboam sinned and led the people of Israel into sin."
Ezekiel 23:5-21
5
Although she was mine, Oholah continued to be a prostitute and was full of lust for her lovers from Assyria.
6
They were soldiers in uniforms of purple, noblemen and high-ranking officers; all of them were handsome young cavalry officers.
7
She was the whore for all the Assyrian officers, and her lust led her to defile herself by worshiping Assyrian idols.
8
She continued what she had begun as a prostitute in Egypt, where she lost her virginity. From the time she was a young woman, men slept with her and treated her like a prostitute.
9
So I handed her over to her Assyrian lovers whom she wanted so much.
10
They stripped her naked, seized her sons and daughters, and then killed her with a sword. Women everywhere gossiped about her fate.
11
"Even though her sister Oholibah saw this, she was wilder and more of a prostitute than Oholah had ever been.
12
She too was full of lust for the Assyrian noblemen and officers---soldiers in bright uniforms---and for the cavalry officers, all of those handsome young men.
13
I saw that she was completely immoral, that the second sister was as bad as the first.
14
"She sank deeper and deeper in her immorality. She was attracted by the images of high Babylonian officials carved into the wall and painted bright red, with sashes around their waists and fancy turbans on their heads.
16
As soon as she saw them, she was filled with lust and sent messengers to them in Babylonia.
17
The Babylonians came to have sex with her. They used her and defiled her so much that finally she became disgusted with them.
18
She exposed herself publicly and let everyone know she was a whore. I was as disgusted with her as I had been with her sister.
19
She became more of a prostitute than ever, acting the way she did as a young woman, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.
20
She was filled with lust for oversexed men who had all the lustfulness of donkeys or stallions."
21
(Oholibah, you wanted to repeat the immorality you were guilty of as a young woman in Egypt, where men played with your breasts and you lost your virginity.)