Hosea 3:4

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Hosea 3:2–5 · Berean Standard Bible

2 So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.

3 Then 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.”

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

5 Afterward, 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.

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Hosea 10:3

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

Genesis 49:10

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.

Jeremiah 15:4

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

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

John 19:15

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.

2 Chronicles 15:2

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 8:11

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

Daniel 8:12

And in the rebellion, the host and the daily sacrifice were given over to the horn, and it flung truth to the ground and prospered in whatever it did.

Daniel 8:13

Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to him, “How long until the fulfillment of the vision of the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, and the surrender of the sanctuary and of the host to be trampled?”

Daniel 9:27

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 decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”

Daniel 12:11

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

Matthew 24:1

As Jesus left the temple and was walking away, His disciples came up to Him to point out its buildings.

Matthew 24:2

“Do you see all these things?” He replied. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”

Luke 21:24

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.

Acts 6:13

where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.

Acts 6:14

For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”

Hebrews 10:26

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

Isaiah 19:19

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

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.

Exodus 28:4

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 priests.

Leviticus 8:7

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.

Judges 8:27

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.

Judges 17:5

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.

1 Samuel 2:18

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

1 Samuel 14:3

including Ahijah, who was wearing an ephod. He was the son of Ichabod’s brother Ahitub son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of the LORD in Shiloh. But the troops did not know that Jonathan had left.

1 Samuel 21:9

The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want, you may take it. For there is no other but this one.” And David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”

1 Samuel 22:18

So the king ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. On that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.

1 Samuel 23:6

(Now Abiathar son of Ahimelech had brought the ephod with him when he fled to David at Keilah.)

1 Samuel 23:9

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

1 Samuel 30:7

Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Bring me the ephod.” So Abiathar brought it to him,

2 Samuel 6:14

And David, wearing a linen ephod, danced with all his might before the LORD,

Genesis 31:19

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

Judges 18:17

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 men.

Judges 18:18

When they entered Micah’s house and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

Judges 18:19

“Be quiet,” they told him. “Put your hand over your mouth and come with us and be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be a priest for the house of one person or a priest for a tribe and family in Israel?”

Judges 18:20

So the priest was glad and took the ephod, the household idols, and the graven image, and went with the people.

Judges 18:21

Putting their small children, their livestock, and their possessions in front of them, they turned and departed.

Judges 18:22

After they were some distance from Micah’s house, the men in the houses near Micah’s house mobilized and overtook the Danites.

Judges 18:23

When they called out after them, the Danites turned to face them and said to Micah, “What is the matter with you that you have called out such a company?”

Judges 18:24

He replied, “You took the gods I had made, and my priest, and went away. What else do I have? How can you say to me, ‘What is the matter with you?’”

2 Kings 23:24

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 in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the LORD.

Ezekiel 20:32

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

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

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

Micah 5:12

I will cut the sorceries from your hand, and you will have no fortune-tellers.

Micah 5:13

I will also cut off the carved images and sacred pillars from among you, so that you will no longer bow down to the work of your own hands.

Micah 5:14

I will root out the Asherah poles from your midst and demolish your cities.

Zechariah 13:2

And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.