Hosea 5:1 Cross References - NSB

¹ »Hear this, O you priests and pay attention, O house of Israel. Give ear (listen)! O house of the king the judgment is about you. You have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor.

⁶ She sent for Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him: »Has Jehovah the God of Israel commanded, saying: ‘Go and deploy troops at mount Tabor. Take ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

⁷ »Go and tell Jeroboam that this is what Jehovah, the God of Israel, says to him: I chose you from among the people and made you the ruler of my people Israel. ⁸ »I took the kingdom away from David's descendants and gave it to you. You have not been like my servant David. He was completely loyal to me. He obeyed my commands, and did only what I approve of. ⁹ »You have committed far greater sins than those who ruled before you. You have rejected me and have aroused my anger by making idols and metal images to worship. ¹⁰ »I will bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam. I will kill all your male descendants, young and old alike. I will get rid of your family. They will be swept away like dung. ¹¹ »Dogs will eat members of your family who die in the city. Vultures will eat any who die in the open country. I, Jehovah, have spoken!« ¹² Ahijah went on to say to Jeroboam's wife: »Go back home. As soon as you enter the town, your son will die. ¹³ »All the people of Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He will be the only member of Jeroboam's family who will be properly buried for he is the only one with whom Jehovah, the God of Israel, is pleased. ¹⁴ »Jehovah will place a king over Israel who will put an end to Jeroboam's house. ¹⁵ »Jehovah will punish Israel, and she will shake like a reed shaking in a stream. He will uproot the people of Israel from this good land that he gave to their ancestors. He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they have aroused his anger by making idols of the goddess Asherah. ¹⁶ »Jehovah will abandon Israel because Jeroboam sinned and led the people of Israel into sin.«

¹⁸ »Go to Ahab, king of Israel, in Samaria. He is in the garden of Naboth the Jezreelite. He went there to take it as his heritage.« ¹⁹ »Say to him: ‘Jehovah says: »Have you put a man to death and taken his heritage?«’« »Then say: ‘Jehovah says: »Your blood will become the drink of dogs! You will go to the same place where the dogs drink the blood of Naboth.«’« ²⁰ Ahab said to Elijah: »Have you come face to face with me, O my enemy?« Elijah said: »I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah.« ²¹ Jehovah says to you: »I will bring disaster on you. I will do away with you and get rid of every male in your family, young and old alike. ²² »Your family will become like the family of King Jeroboam son of Nebat and like the family of King Baasha son of Ahijah. This is because you have stirred up my anger by leading Israel into sin.

¹² A letter came to him from the prophet Elijah. It read: This is what Jehovah the God of your ancestor David says: You have not followed the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or the ways of King Asa of Judah. ¹³ Instead, you have followed the ways of the kings of Israel. You, like Ahab’s family, have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to chase after foreign gods as if they were prostitutes. You have killed your brothers, your father’s family. Your brothers were better than you. ¹⁴ Jehovah will strike a great blow to your people, your sons, your wives, and all your property because you did this. ¹⁵ You will be affected by a painful stomach disease and suffer until you die.

¹⁸ Say to the king and his mother: »Come down from your thrones, because your crowns have fallen off your heads.«

¹ This is what Jehovah says: »Go to the palace of the king of Judah, and speak this message there: ² »‘Listen to the word of Jehovah, you officials, you people who come into these gates, and you, king of Judah, the one sitting on David's throne. ³ This is what Jehovah says: »Judge fairly, and do what is right. Rescue those who have been robbed from those who oppress them. Do not mistreat foreigners, orphans, or widows, and do not oppress them. Do not kill innocent people in this place. ⁴ »‘If you do what I say, then the kings who sit on David's throne will ride through the gates of this palace in chariots and on horses along with their officials and their people.«’ ⁵ »‘But if you do not do what I say, I will take an oath on myself,’ declares Jehovah, ‘this palace will become a pile of rubble.’ ⁶ »Jehovah says concerning the house of the king of Judah: ‘You are like Gilead to me, like the summit of Lebanon. Most assuredly I will make you like a wilderness, like cities that are not inhabited. ⁷ »I will set apart destroyers against you, each with his weapons. They will cut down your choicest cedars and throw them on the fire. ⁸ »Many nations will pass by this city. They will say to one another: Why has Jehovah done thus to this great city? ⁹ »They will answer: ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of Jehovah their God and bowed down to other gods and served them.«’

¹⁸ »‘As I live,’ declares the king, whose name is Jehovah of Hosts; ‘someone who is like Mount Tabor among the mountains will come. Someone who is like Mount Carmel by the sea will come.

¹ Hear the word of Jehovah, you children of Israel! For Jehovah has a legal case against the inhabitants of the land. There is no truth! There is no goodness. There is no knowledge of God in the land.

⁶ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you! You will not be a priest to me since you have forgotten the Law of your God. Therefore, I will forget your children. ⁷ They grew in number and sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.

⁹ »As marauders lie in ambush for a man, so do bands of priests. They murder on the road to Shechem, committing shameful crimes.

³ »They make kings happy with the wicked things they do. They make officials happy with the lies they tell. ⁴ »They all commit adultery. They are like a heated oven, an oven so hot that a baker does not have to fan its flames when he makes bread. ⁵ »On the day of the king's celebration, the officials become drunk from the heat of wine, and the king joins mockers.

⁸ Prophets are God’s watchmen over Ephraim. Yet, traps are set on every prophet’s path and people are hostile in the Temple of their God.

¹¹ »As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird: No birth, no pregnancy and no conception! ¹² »Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them until no man is left. Yes, woe to them even when I depart from them! ¹³ »I have seen Ephraim planted in a pleasant meadow like Tyre. But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.« ¹⁴ Give them, O Jehovah what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. ¹⁵ »All Ephraim's wickedness began in Gilgal. I hated the people there. I will force them out of my Temple because of their wickedness. I will not love them anymore. All their officials are rebellious. ¹⁶ »The people of Ephraim are like sick plants. Their roots are dried up. They have no fruit. Even if they were to have children, I would kill their dear children.« ¹⁷ My God will reject them because they refused to listen to him. They will wander among the nations.

¹⁵ »That is what will happen to you, people of Bethel, because of the terrible evil that you have done. As soon as the battle begins, the king of Israel will die.«

⁹ »The high places of Isaac will be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste. I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.«

⁸ »Like a bear that has lost her cubs, I will attack you. I will rip you open. Like a lion I will devour you. Like a wild animal I will tear you apart.

¹ I said: »Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: is it not your responsibility to know justice?

⁹ Please hear this you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel. You who abhor justice, and pervert honesty!

² The godly (loyal) (holy) man has perished from the earth. There is none upright among men! They all lie in wait for blood. Every man hunts his own brother with a net.

¹⁵ He brings them all up with the hook. He gathers them away in his net. He gladly gathers them and rejoices. ¹⁶ He offers sacrifices and burns incense to his fishing net. For it is through this their catch is great and the food is plentiful. ¹⁷ Will they keep on emptying their nets and keep on destroying nations without mercy?

⁶ Jehovah of Hosts declares to the priests: »Children honor their parents and servants honor their masters. I am your father. Why do you not honor me? I am your master. Why do you not respect me? You despise me, and yet you ask: How have we despised you?«

¹ [Jehovah God the Almighty speaks to the priests:] »This command is for you.