EPHRAIM

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• Genesis 9:18

  The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.

• Genesis 9:19

  These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was populated.

• Genesis 9:20

  Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.

• Genesis 9:21

  He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent.

• Genesis 11:13

  Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

• Genesis 28:1

  Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

• Genesis 41:52

  The name of the second, he called Ephraim: “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

• Genesis 48:5

  Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.

• Genesis 48:14

  Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.

• Genesis 48:15

  He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

• Genesis 48:16

  the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”

• Genesis 48:17

  When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.

• Genesis 48:18

  Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”

• Genesis 48:19

  His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a multitude of nations.”

• Genesis 48:20

  He blessed them that day, saying, “In you will Israel bless, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’” He set Ephraim before Manasseh.

• Genesis 49:25

  even by the God of your father, who will help you; by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.

• Genesis 49:26

  The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.

• Numbers 1:33

  those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.

• Numbers 2:18

  “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.

• Numbers 2:24

  “All who were counted of the camp of Ephraim were one hundred eight thousand one hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out third.

• Numbers 10:22

  The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies. Elishama the son of Ammihud was over his army.

• Numbers 26:35

  These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.

• Numbers 26:36

  These are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.

• Numbers 26:37

  These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were counted of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.

• Deuteronomy 33:13

  About Joseph he said, “His land is blessed by Yahweh, for the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, for the deep that couches beneath,

• Deuteronomy 33:14

  for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, for the precious things that the moon can yield,

• Deuteronomy 33:15

  for the best things of the ancient mountains, for the precious things of the everlasting hills,

• Deuteronomy 33:16

  for the precious things of the earth and its fullness, the good will of him who lived in the bush. Let this come on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who was separated from his brothers.

• Deuteronomy 33:17

  The firstborn of his herd, majesty is his. His horns are the horns of the wild ox. With them he will push all the peoples, to the ends of the earth. They are the ten thousands of Ephraim. They are the thousands of Manasseh.”

• Joshua 16:5

  This was the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families. The border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth Addar, to Beth Horon the upper.

• Joshua 16:6

  The border went out westward at Michmethath on the north. The border turned about eastward to Taanath Shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah.

• Joshua 16:7

  It went down from Janoah to Ataroth, to Naarah, reached to Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.

• Joshua 16:8

  From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; and ended at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families;

• Joshua 16:9

  together with the cities which were set apart for the children of Ephraim in the middle of the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.

• Joshua 16:10

  They didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell in the territory of Ephraim to this day, and have become servants to do forced labor.

• Joshua 17:9

  The border went down to the brook of Kanah, southward of the brook. These cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh. The border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook, and ended at the sea.

• Joshua 17:10

  Southward it was Ephraim’s, and northward it was Manasseh’s, and the sea was his border. They reached to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east.

• Joshua 17:15

  Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest, and clear land for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”

• Joshua 17:16

  The children of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us. All the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth Shean and its towns, and those who are in the valley of Jezreel.”

• Joshua 17:17

  Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, that is, to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, “You are a numerous people, and have great power. You shall not have one lot only;

• Joshua 17:18

  but the hill country shall be yours. Although it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and it’s farthest extent shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.”

• Judges 1:22

  The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and Yahweh was with them.

• Judges 1:23

  The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city before that was Luz.)

• Judges 1:24

  The watchers saw a man come out of the city, and they said to him, “Please show us the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.”

• Judges 1:25

  He showed them the entrance into the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man and all his family go.

• Judges 2:9

  They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.

• Judges 7:24

  Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against Midian, and take before them the waters, as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan!” So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and took the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan.

• Judges 7:25

  They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at Oreb’s rock, and Zeeb they killed at Zeeb’s wine press; and pursued Midian. Then they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.

• Judges 8:1

  The 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.

• Judges 12:1

  The 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!”

• Judges 12:4

  Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim. The men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the middle of Ephraim, and in the middle of Manasseh.”

• Judges 12:5

  The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. When the fugitives of Ephraim said, “Let me go over,” the men of Gilead said to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No”;

• Judges 12:6

  then they said to him, “Now say ‘Shibboleth;’” and he said “Sibboleth”; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce it right: then they seized him, and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell.

• Judges 17:8

  The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to live where he could find a place, and he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, as he traveled.

• 1 Samuel 14:22

  Likewise all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.

• 2 Samuel 2:9

  and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.

• 2 Samuel 18:6

  So the people went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.

• 2 Samuel 18:7

  The people of Israel were struck there before David’s servants, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.

• 2 Samuel 18:8

  For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

• 2 Samuel 18:9

  Absalom happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.

• 2 Samuel 18:10

  A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”

• 2 Samuel 18:11

  Joab said to the man who told him, “Behold, you saw it, and why didn’t you strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver, and a sash.”

• 2 Samuel 18:12

  The man said to Joab, “Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn’t stretch out my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware that no one touch the young man Absalom.’

• 2 Samuel 18:13

  Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hidden from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against me.”

• 2 Samuel 18:14

  Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you.” He took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the middle of the oak.

• 2 Samuel 18:15

  Ten young men who bore Joab’s armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.

• 2 Samuel 18:16

  Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held the people back.

• 2 Samuel 18:17

  They took Absalom and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones. Then all Israel fled, each to his own tent.

• 2 Samuel 20:21

  The matter is not so. But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David. Just deliver him, and I will depart from the city.” The woman said to Joab, “Behold, his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”

• 1 Kings 12:25

  Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived in it; and he went out from there, and built Penuel.

• 1 Kings 12:29

  He set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.

• 2 Kings 14:13

  Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

• 1 Chronicles 7:20

  The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son,

• 1 Chronicles 7:21

  Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take away their livestock.

• 1 Chronicles 7:22

  Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.

• 1 Chronicles 7:23

  He went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because there was trouble with his house.

• 1 Chronicles 7:24

  His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah.

• 1 Chronicles 7:25

  Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, Tahan his son,

• 1 Chronicles 7:26

  Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,

• 1 Chronicles 7:27

  Nun his son, and Joshua his son.

• 1 Chronicles 7:28

  Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with its towns; Shechem also and its towns, to Azzah and its towns;

• 1 Chronicles 7:29

  and by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, and Dor and its towns. The children of Joseph the son of Israel lived in these.

• 2 Chronicles 10:16

  When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So all Israel departed to their tents.

• 2 Chronicles 13:19

  Abijah pursued Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with its villages, Jeshanah with its villages, and Ephron with its villages.

• 2 Chronicles 15:9

  He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who lived with them out of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon; for they came to him out of Israel in abundance when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.

• 2 Chronicles 17:2

  He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

• 2 Chronicles 25:6

  He also hired one hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver.

• 2 Chronicles 25:7

  A man of God came to him, saying, “O king, don’t let the army of Israel go with you, for Yahweh is not with Israel, with all the children of Ephraim.

• 2 Chronicles 25:23

  Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth Shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

• 2 Chronicles 28:7

  Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king’s son, Azrikam the ruler of the house, and Elkanah who was next to the king.

• 2 Chronicles 30:18

  For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover other than the way it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Yahweh pardon everyone

• 2 Chronicles 31:1

  Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, also in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

• 2 Chronicles 34:1

  Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 34:2

  He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn’t turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

• 2 Chronicles 34:3

  For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images.

• 2 Chronicles 34:4

  They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and he cut down the incense altars that were on high above them. He broke the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images in pieces, made dust of them, and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

• 2 Chronicles 34:5

  He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 34:6

  He did this in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins.

• Nehemiah 8:16

  So the people went out, and brought them, and made themselves temporary shelters, everyone on the roof of his house, in their courts, in the courts of God’s house, in the wide place of the water gate, and in the wide place of Ephraim’s gate.

• Nehemiah 12:39

  and above the gate of Ephraim, and by the old gate, and by the fish gate, and the tower of Hananel, and the tower of Hammeah, even to the sheep gate: and they stood still in the gate of the guard.

• Isaiah 7:8

  For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people;

• Isaiah 7:9

  and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’”

• Isaiah 11:12

  He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

• Isaiah 11:13

  The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim.

• Isaiah 17:3

  The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says Yahweh of Armies.

• Jeremiah 7:15

  I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole offspring of Ephraim.

• Jeremiah 31:6

  For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry, ‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.’”

• Jeremiah 31:18

  “I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

• Jeremiah 31:20

  Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 50:19

  I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he will feed on Carmel and Bashan. His soul will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.

• Ezekiel 37:16

  You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:

• Ezekiel 37:19

  tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.

• Ezekiel 48:5

  By the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one portion.

• Hosea 4:17

  Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!

• Hosea 5:3

  I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.

• Hosea 5:5

  The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them.

• Hosea 5:14

  For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.

• Hosea 6:4

  “Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.

• Hosea 6:10

  In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled.

• Hosea 8:11

  Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.

• Hosea 12:14

  Ephraim has bitterly provoked anger. Therefore his blood will be left on him, and his Lord will repay his contempt.

• Hosea 13:1

  When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he became guilty in Baal, he died.

• Hosea 13:12

  The guilt of Ephraim is stored up. His sin is stored up.

• Zechariah 9:10

  I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow will be cut off; and he will speak peace to the nations: and his dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

• Zechariah 10:7

  Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will rejoice as through wine; yes, their children will see it, and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in Yahweh.

• John 11:54

  Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.

• Revelation 7:8

  of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand, of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand, of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.