Hosea 5:1-3
1599 Geneva Bible
5 1 Against the Priests and rulers of Israel. 13 The help of man is in vain.
1 O ye Priests, hear this, and hearken ye, O house of Israel, and give ye ear, O house of the King: for judgment is toward you, because you have been a [a]snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
2 Yet they were profound to decline to [b]slaughter, though I have been a [c]rebuker of them all.
3 I know [d]Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou art become an harlot, and Israel is defiled.
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- Hosea 5:1 The Priests and Princes caught the poor people in their snares, as the fowlers did the birds, in these two high mountains.
- Hosea 5:2 Notwithstanding they seemed to be given altogether to holiness, and to sacrifices which here he calleth slaughter in contempt.
- Hosea 5:2 Though I had admonished them continually by my Prophets.
- Hosea 5:3 They boasted themselves not only to be Israelites, but also Ephraimites, because their king Jeroboam came of that tribe.
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