Hosea 9:3

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Assyrian Exile Will Reverse the Egyptian Exodus They will not remain in the LORD’s land. Ephraim will return to Egypt; they will eat ritually unclean food in Assyria.

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  • Ezek 4:13 : 13 And the LORD said,“This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations where I will banish them.”
  • Hos 8:13 : 13 They offer up sacrificial gifts to me, and eat the meat, but the LORD does not accept their sacrifices. Soon he will remember their wrongdoing, he will punish their sins, and they will return to Egypt.
  • Lev 25:23 : 23 The land must not be sold without reclaim because the land belongs to me, for you are foreign residents, temporary settlers, with me.
  • Jer 2:7 : 7 I brought you into a fertile land so you could enjoy its fruits and its rich bounty. But when you entered my land, you defiled it; you made the land I call my own loathsome to me.
  • Jer 16:18 : 18 Before I restore them I will punish them in full for their sins and the wrongs they have done. For they have polluted my land with the lifeless statues of their disgusting idols. They have filled the land I have claimed as my own with their detestable idols.”
  • Dan 1:8 : 8 But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the royal delicacies or the royal wine. He therefore asked the overseer of the court officials for permission not to defile himself.
  • Hos 7:11 : 11 Israel Turns to Assyria and Egypt for Help Ephraim has been like a dove, easily deceived and lacking discernment. They called to Egypt for help; they turned to Assyria for protection.
  • Deut 4:26 : 26 I invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will surely and swiftly be removed from the very land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not last long there because you will surely be annihilated.
  • Deut 28:63 : 63 This is what will happen: Just as the LORD delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, he will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess.
  • 1 Kgs 9:7 : 7 then I will remove Israel from the land I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed among all the nations.
  • 2 Kgs 17:6 : 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor(the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.
  • Isa 11:15-16 : 15 The LORD will divide the gulf of the Egyptian Sea; he will wave his hand over the Euphrates River and send a strong wind, he will turn it into seven dried-up streams, and enable them to walk across in their sandals. 16 There will be a highway leading out of Assyria for the remnant of his people, just as there was for Israel, when they went up from the land of Egypt.
  • Lev 18:28 : 28 So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.
  • Lev 20:22 : 22 Exhortation to Holiness and Obedience“‘You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations, so that the land to which I am about to bring you to take up residence there does not vomit you out.
  • Deut 28:68 : 68 Then the LORD will make you return to Egypt by ship, over a route I said to you that you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
  • Josh 23:15 : 15 But in the same way every faithful promise the LORD your God made to you has been realized, it is just as certain, if you disobey, that the LORD will bring on you every judgment until he destroys you from this good land which the LORD your God gave you.
  • Hos 9:6 : 6 No Escape for the Israelites This Time! Look! Even if they flee from the destruction, Egypt will take hold of them, and Memphis will bury them. The weeds will inherit the silver they treasure– thorn bushes will occupy their homes.
  • Hos 11:5 : 5 They will return to Egypt! Assyria will rule over them because they refuse to repent!
  • Hos 11:11 : 11 They will return in fear and trembling like birds from Egypt, like doves from Assyria, and I will settle them in their homes,” declares the LORD.
  • Mic 2:10 : 10 But you are the ones who will be forced to leave! For this land is not secure! Sin will thoroughly destroy it!
  • Acts 10:14 : 14 But Peter said,“Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!”

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    4They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the LORD; they will not please him with their sacrifices. Their sacrifices will be like bread eaten while in mourning; all those who eat them will make themselves ritually unclean. For their bread will be only to satisfy their appetite; it will not come into the temple of the LORD.

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    13They offer up sacrificial gifts to me, and eat the meat, but the LORD does not accept their sacrifices. Soon he will remember their wrongdoing, he will punish their sins, and they will return to Egypt.

  • Hos 11:5-6
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    5They will return to Egypt! Assyria will rule over them because they refuse to repent!

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    2Threshing floors and wine vats will not feed the people, and new wine only deceives them.

  • Ezek 4:12-13
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    12And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement.”

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    17The LORD will bring on you, your people, and your father’s family a time unlike any since Ephraim departed from Judah– the king of Assyria!”

  • Isa 19:23-24
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    23At that time there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will visit Egypt, and the Egyptians will visit Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together.

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    10I will bring them back from Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to the lands of Gilead and Lebanon, and there will not be enough room for them.

  • Hos 5:6
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    6The Futility of Sacrificial Ritual without Moral Obedience Although they bring their flocks and herds to seek the favor of the LORD, They will not find him– he has withdrawn himself from them!

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    11Israel Turns to Assyria and Egypt for Help Ephraim has been like a dove, easily deceived and lacking discernment. They called to Egypt for help; they turned to Assyria for protection.

  • Hos 9:17
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    17My God will reject them, for they have not obeyed him; so they will be fugitives among the nations.

  • Hos 12:1
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    1Ephraim continually feeds on the wind; he chases the east wind all day; he multiplies lies and violence. They make treaties with Assyria, and send olive oil as tribute to Egypt.

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    15So then, listen to what I, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, say.‘I will make these people eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment.

  • Mic 7:13
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    13The earth will become desolate because of what its inhabitants have done.

  • Jer 22:27
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    27You will never come back to this land to which you will long to return!”

  • Ezra 9:11
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    11which you commanded us through your servants the prophets with these words:‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land defiled by the impurities of the local residents! With their abominations they have filled it from one end to the other with their filthiness.

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    11They will return in fear and trembling like birds from Egypt, like doves from Assyria, and I will settle them in their homes,” declares the LORD.

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    38You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.

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    19As for my sheep, they must eat what you trampled with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet!

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    9The Best of Times, the Worst of Times They have sunk deep into corruption as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their wrongdoing. He will repay them for their sins.

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    18“When they return to it, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.

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    8Israel will be swallowed up among the nations; they will be like a worthless piece of pottery.

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  • Hos 5:4
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    4Their wicked deeds do not allow them to return to their God; for a spirit of idolatry is in them, and they do not acknowledge the LORD.

  • Jer 42:14
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    14You must not say,‘No, we will not stay. Instead we will go and live in the land of Egypt where we will not face war, or hear the enemy’s trumpet calls, or starve for lack of food.’

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    6Even the calf idol will be carried to Assyria, as tribute for the great king. Ephraim will be disgraced; Israel will be put to shame because of its wooden idol.

  • Jer 42:17
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    17All the people who are determined to go and settle in Egypt will die from war, starvation, or disease. No one will survive or escape the disaster I will bring on them.’

  • Isa 5:17
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    17Lambs will graze as if in their pastures, amid the ruins the rich sojourners will graze.

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    14You will eat, but not be satisfied. Even if you have the strength to overtake some prey, you will not be able to carry it away; if you do happen to carry away something, I will deliver it over to the sword.

  • Jer 50:19
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    19But I will restore the flock of Israel to their own pasture. They will graze on Mount Carmel and the land of Bashan. They will eat until they are full on the hills of Ephraim and the land of Gilead.

  • Isa 11:16
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    16There will be a highway leading out of Assyria for the remnant of his people, just as there was for Israel, when they went up from the land of Egypt.

  • Ezek 29:14
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    14I will restore the fortunes of Egypt, and will bring them back to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin; there they will be an insignificant kingdom.

  • Lev 22:25
    68%

    25Even from a foreigner you must not present the food of your God from such animals as these, for they are ruined and flawed; they will not be acceptable for your benefit.’”

  • Hos 7:8
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    8Israel Lacks Discernment and Refuses to Repent Ephraim has mixed itself like flour among the nations; Ephraim is like a ruined cake of bread that is scorched on one side.

  • Hos 12:9
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  • Hos 4:10
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    10They will eat, but not be satisfied; they will engage in prostitution, but not increase in numbers; because they have abandoned the LORD by pursuing other gods.

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    12I will see to it that all the Judean remnant that was determined to go and live in the land of Egypt will be destroyed. Here in the land of Egypt they will fall in battle or perish from starvation. People of every class will die in war or from starvation. They will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example of those who have been cursed and that people use in pronouncing a curse.

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    8and the one who eats it will bear his punishment for iniquity because he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person will be cut off from his people.

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    10But you are the ones who will be forced to leave! For this land is not secure! Sin will thoroughly destroy it!

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    12The Curse of the Incurable Wound I will be like a moth to Ephraim, like wood rot to the house of Judah.

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