Ephraim feeds on wind, Hos 11:12Ezk 17:10Hos 5:13Hos 8:7Jer 22:222Ki 15:192Ki 17:4-6Isa 30:6-7
and chases the east wind.
He continually multiplies lies and desolation.
They make a covenant with Assyria,
and oil is carried into Egypt.
The LORD also has a controversy with Judah, Mic 6:2Hos 4:1Isa 10:6Hos 2:13Hos 8:13Isa 10:12Isa 3:11Isa 8:7-8
and will punish Jacob according to his ways;
according to his deeds he will repay him.
In the womb he took his brother by the heel, Gen 25:26Gen 32:24-28Jas 5:16-18Rom 9:11
and in his manhood he contended with God.
Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; Gen 35:151Th 4:17Mal 3:1Act 7:30-35Exo 3:2-5Gen 32:29Gen 35:9-10Gen 48:15
he wept, and made supplication to him.
He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us—
even the LORD, the God of Armies. Exo 3:15Isa 42:8Psa 135:13Gen 28:16Gen 32:30
The LORD is his name of renown!
Therefore turn to your God. Mic 6:8Hos 14:1Lam 3:25-26Mic 7:7Act 2:38Hos 6:1-3Jas 2:13Zec 7:9
Keep kindness and justice,
and wait continually for your God.
A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. Amo 8:5-6Mic 6:10-11Pro 11:11Sa 12:31Ti 6:9-10Amo 2:7Amo 3:9Amo 4:1
He loves to defraud.
Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich. Rev 3:17Psa 62:101Ti 6:5Deu 8:17Isa 10:13-14Job 31:24-25Pro 30:12Pro 30:20
I have found myself wealth.
In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”
“But I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt. Hos 13:4Lev 23:40-432Sa 7:2Neh 8:15-17Psa 81:10Zec 14:16-19Exo 20:2Ezr 3:4
I will yet again make you dwell in tents,
as in the days of the solemn feast.
I have also spoken to the prophets, 2Ki 17:13Ezk 20:49Isa 20:2-5Jer 19:1Jer 7:25Jol 2:281Ki 13:11Ki 14:7-16
and I have multiplied visions;
and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.
If Gilead is wicked, Hos 4:15Hos 6:8Hos 8:11Hos 9:15Hos 10:11Ki 17:12Ki 17:9-11Amo 4:4
surely they are worthless.
In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls.
Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.
Jacob fled into the country of Aram. Gen 29:18-28Gen 31:41Gen 27:43Gen 28:1-22Deu 26:5Gen 32:27-28
Israel served to get a wife.
For a wife he tended flocks and herds.
By a prophet the LORD brought Israel up out of Egypt, Act 3:22-23Exo 12:50-51Psa 77:20Act 7:35-37Isa 63:11-14Exo 13:3Amo 2:11-12Mic 6:4
and by a prophet he was preserved.
Ephraim has bitterly provoked anger. Ezk 18:13Dan 11:182Ki 17:7-181Ki 2:33-341Sa 2:302Sa 1:16Deu 28:37Ezk 23:2-10
Therefore his blood will be left on him,
and his Lord 1 will repay his contempt.