Hosea 3:4 “For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without…”

Hosea 3:4

For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:

World English Bible

For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, without prince, without sacrifice, without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.

American Standard Version

For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without pillar, and without ephod or teraphim:

Geneva Bible 1599

For the children of Israel shall remaine many dayes without a King and without a prince, and without an offering, and without an image, and without an Ephod and without Teraphim.

Darby Translation

For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without statue, and without ephod and teraphim.

Young's Literal Translation

For many days remain do the sons of Israel without a king, and there is no prince, and there is no sacrifice, and there is no standing pillar, and there is no ephod and teraphim.

Bible in Basic English

For the children of Israel will for a long time be without king and without ruler, without offerings and without pillars, and without ephod or images.

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Cross references

“without a king”

John 19:15 Genesis 49:10 Hosea 10:3 Jeremiah 15:4 Jeremiah 15:5

John 19:15 · BSB

At this, they shouted, “Away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him!” “Shall I crucify your King?” Pilate asked. “We have no king but Caesar,” replied the chief priests.

Genesis 49:10 · BSB

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.

Hosea 10:3 · BSB

Surely now they will say, “We have no king, for we do not revere the LORD. What can a king do for us?”

Jeremiah 15:4 · BSB

I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 15:5 · BSB

Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?

“without a sacrifice”

2 Chronicles 15:2 Daniel 9:27 Daniel 12:11 Hebrews 10:26 Daniel 8:11–13 Luke 21:24

2 Chronicles 15:2 · BSB

So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you…

Daniel 9:27 · BSB

And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the…

Daniel 12:11 · BSB

And from the time the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation set up, there will be 1,290 days.

Hebrews 10:26 · BSB

If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,

Daniel 8:11–13 · BSB

It magnified itself, even to the Prince of the host; it removed His daily sacrifice and overthrew the place of His sanctuary.

Luke 21:24 · BSB

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

“an image”

Isaiah 19:19 Isaiah 19:20

Isaiah 19:19 · BSB

In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the center of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD near her border.

Isaiah 19:20 · BSB

It will be a sign and a witness to the LORD of Hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, He will send them a savior and defender to rescue them.

“ephod”

Judges 17:5 Exodus 28:4 Judges 8:27 1 Samuel 23:9 Leviticus 8:7 1 Samuel 2:18

Judges 17:5 · BSB

Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.

Exodus 28:4 · BSB

These are the garments that they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a woven tunic, a turban, and a sash. They are to make these holy garments for your brother Aaron and his sons, so that they may serve Me as pr…

Judges 8:27 · BSB

From all this Gideon made an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.

1 Samuel 23:9 · BSB

When David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod.”

Leviticus 8:7 · BSB

He put the tunic on Aaron, tied the sash around him, clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him. He tied the woven band of the ephod around him and fastened it to him.

1 Samuel 2:18 · BSB

Now Samuel was ministering before the LORD—a boy wearing a linen ephod.

“without teraphim”

Genesis 31:19 Judges 18:17–24 2 Kings 23:24 Ezekiel 20:32 Ezekiel 21:21 Micah 5:11–14

Genesis 31:19 · BSB

Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

Judges 18:17–24 · BSB

And the five men who had gone to spy out the land went inside and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, while the priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred armed…

2 Kings 23:24 · BSB

Furthermore, Josiah removed the mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this to carry out the words of the law written i…

Ezekiel 20:32 · BSB

When you say, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the peoples of the lands, serving wood and stone,’ what you have in mind will never come to pass.

Ezekiel 21:21 · BSB

For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the liver.

Micah 5:11–14 · BSB

I will remove the cities of your land and tear down all your strongholds.

Also

Hosea 13:11 Hosea 2:11 Daniel 11:31 Hosea 10:1–3

Hosea 13:11 · BSB

So in My anger I gave you a king, and in My wrath I took him away.

Hosea 2:11 · BSB

I will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths— all her appointed feasts.

Daniel 11:31 · BSB

His forces will rise up and desecrate the temple fortress. They will abolish the daily sacrifice and set up the abomination of desolation.

Hosea 10:1–3 · BSB

Israel was a luxuriant vine, yielding fruit for himself. The more his fruit increased, the more he increased the altars. The better his land produced, the better he made the sacred pillars.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3Then I said to her, “You must live with me for many days; you must not be promiscuous or belong to another, and I will do the same for you.”

5Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.

Read Hosea 3