Hosea 13:1

Once Ephraim's words carried weight and honor, but their guilt in Baal-worship brought spiritual death. It shows how idolatry destroys a once-prominent people.

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• Hos 11:2They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.
• Num 27:16–23“Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,
• Gen 2:17but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
• Josh 3:7Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
• Luke 14:11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
• Num 2:18–21“On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
• 2 Kgs 17:16–18They abandoned all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made molten images for themselves, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.
• 1 Kgs 18:18–19He answered, “I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken Yahweh’s commandments, and you have followed the Baals.
• Num 13:16These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
• 1 Kgs 12:25Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived in it; and he went out from there, and built Penuel.
• Num 13:8Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.
• 1 Sam 15:17Samuel said, “Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;
• 1 Kgs 16:29–33In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel. Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.
• Judg 8:1The men of Ephraim said to him, “Why have you treated us this way, that you didn’t call us when you went to fight with Midian?” They rebuked him sharply.
• Judg 12:1The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, “Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn’t call us to go with you? We will burn your house around you with fire!”
• Num 10:22The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies. Elishama the son of Ammihud was over his army.
• Isa 66:2For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but to this man will I look, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
• Prov 18:12Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.
• Rom 5:12Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
• 2 Cor 5:14For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

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