Hosea 9:3 “They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to E…”

Hosea 9:3

They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

They shall not dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

World English Bible

They won’t dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

American Standard Version

They shall not dwell in Jehovah’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

Geneva Bible 1599

They wil not dwel in the Lordes lande, but Ephraim will returne to Egypt, and they will eate vncleane things in Asshur.

Darby Translation

They shall not dwell in Jehovah's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and in Assyria shall they eat that which is unclean.

Young's Literal Translation

They do not abide in the land of Jehovah, And turned back hath Ephraim [to] Egypt, And in Asshur an unclean thing they eat.

Bible in Basic English

They will have no resting-place in the Lord's land, but Ephraim will go back to Egypt, and they will take unclean food in Assyria.

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Cross references

“shall not”

Deuteronomy 4:26 Deuteronomy 28:63 Joshua 23:15 1 Kings 9:7 Leviticus 18:28 Leviticus 20:22

Deuteronomy 4:26 · BSB

I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.

Deuteronomy 28:63 · BSB

Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so also it will please Him to annihilate you and destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

Joshua 23:15 · BSB

But just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the LORD will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land He has given you.

1 Kings 9:7 · BSB

then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.

Leviticus 18:28 · BSB

So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.

Leviticus 20:22 · BSB

You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.

“the Lord's”

Leviticus 25:23 Jeremiah 2:7 Jeremiah 16:18

Leviticus 25:23 · BSB

The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.

Jeremiah 2:7 · BSB

I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land and made My inheritance detestable.

Jeremiah 16:18 · BSB

And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”

“but”

Hosea 8:13 Hosea 9:6 Hosea 11:5 Deuteronomy 28:68 Isaiah 11:15 Isaiah 11:16

Hosea 8:13 · BSB

Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.

Hosea 9:6 · BSB

For even if they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them and Memphis will bury them. Their precious silver will be taken over by thistles, and thorns will overrun their tents.

Hosea 11:5 · BSB

Will they not return to the land of Egypt and be ruled by Assyria because they refused to repent?

Deuteronomy 28:68 · BSB

The LORD will return you to Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

Isaiah 11:15 · BSB

The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.

Isaiah 11:16 · BSB

There will be a highway for the remnant of His people who remain from Assyria, as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt.

“and”

Ezekiel 4:13 Daniel 1:8 Acts 10:14

Ezekiel 4:13 · BSB

Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.”

Daniel 1:8 · BSB

But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself.

Acts 10:14 · BSB

“No, Lord!” Peter answered. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”

“in Assyria”

2 Kings 17:6 Hosea 11:11

2 Kings 17:6 · BSB

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.

Hosea 11:11 · BSB

They will come trembling like birds from Egypt and like doves from the land of Assyria. Then I will settle them in their homes, declares the LORD.

Also

Hosea 7:11

Hosea 7:11 · BSB

So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove— calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.

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

In context

2The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.

4They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him, but will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat will be defiled. For their bread will be for themselves; it will not enter the house of the LORD.

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