Hosea 10:11

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Hosea 10:9–13 · Berean Standard Bible

9 Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel, and there you have remained. Did not the battle in Gibeah overtake the sons of iniquity?

10 I will chasten them when I please; nations will be gathered against them to put them in bondage for their double transgression.

11 Ephraim is a well-trained heifer that loves to thresh; but I will place a yoke on her fair neck. I will harness Ephraim, Judah will plow, and Jacob will break the hard ground.

12 Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.

13 You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,

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Hosea 4:16

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Hosea 2:5

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Hosea 3:1

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Hosea 9:1

Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.

Deuteronomy 25:4

Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.

Romans 16:18

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Hosea 11:4

I led them with cords of kindness, with ropes of love; I lifted the yoke from their necks and bent down to feed them.

2 Chronicles 28:5

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2 Chronicles 28:6

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2 Chronicles 28:7

Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the son of the king, Azrikam the governor of the palace, and Elkanah the second to the king.

2 Chronicles 28:8

Then the Israelites took 200,000 captives from their kinsmen—women, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a great deal of plunder and brought it to Samaria.

Isaiah 28:24

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