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Ho 5:5	Strong Concordance	And the pride [01347] of Israel [03478] doth testify [06030] to his face [06440]: therefore shall Israel [03478] and Ephraim [0669] fall [03782] in their iniquity [05771]; Judah [03063] also shall fall [03782] with them.
	King James	And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
the pride of Israel--wherewith they reject the warnings of God's prophets (Hos 5:2), and prefer their idols to God (Hos 7:10; Jer 13:17). testify to his face--openly to his face he shall be convicted of the pride which is so palpable in him. Or, "in his face," as in Isa 3:9. Judah . . . shall fall with them--This prophecy is later than Hos 4:15, when Judah had not gone so far in idolatry; now her imitation of Israel's bad example provokes the threat of her being doomed to share in Israel's punishment.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

the pride of Israel--wherewith they reject the warnings of God's prophets (Hos 5:2), and prefer their idols to God (Hos 7:10; Jer 13:17).

testify to his face--openly to his face he shall be convicted of the pride which is so palpable in him. Or, "in his face," as in Isa 3:9.

Judah . . . shall fall with them--This prophecy is later than Hos 4:15, when Judah had not gone so far in idolatry; now her imitation of Israel's bad example provokes the threat of her being doomed to share in Israel's punishment.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
And the pride of Israel - Pride was from the first the leading sin of Ephraim. Together with Manasseh, (with whom they made, in some respects, one whole, as "the children of Joseph, Jos 16:4; Jos 17:14), they were nearly equal in number to Judah. When numbered in the wilderness, Judah had 74,600 fighting men, Ephraim and Manasseh together 72,700. They speak of themselves as a "great people, forasmuch as the Lord has blessed me hitherto" Jos 17:14. God having chosen, out of them, the leader under whom He brought Israel into the land of promise, they resented, in the following time of the Judges, any deliverance of the land, in which they were not called to take a part. They rebuked Gideon (Jdg 8:1 ff), and suffered very severely for insolence (Jdg 12:1 ff) to Jephthah and the Gileadites. When Gideon, who had refused to be king, was dead, Abimelech, his son by a concubine out of Ephraim, induced the Ephraimites to make Him king over Israel, as being their "bone and their flesh" Jdg 8:31; Jdg 9:1-3, Jdg 9:22. Lying in the midst of the tribes to the North of Judah, they appear, in antagonism to Judah, to have gathered round them the other tribes, and to have taken, with them, the name of Israel, in contrast with Judah Sa2 2:9-10; Sa2 3:17. Shiloh, where the ark was, until taken by the Philistines, belonged to them. Samuel, the last judge, was raised up out of them Sa1 1:1. Their political dignity was not aggrieved, when God gave Saul, out of "little Benjamin," as king over His people. They could afford to own a king out of the least tribe. Their present political eminence was endangered, when God chose David out of their great rival, the tribe of Judah; their hope for the future was cut off by His promise to the posterity of David. They accordingly upheld, for seven years Sa2 5:5, the house of Saul, knowing that they were acting against the will of God Sa2 3:9. Their religious importance was aggrieved by the removal of the ark to Zion, instead of its being restored to Shiloh Psa 78:60, Psa 78:67-69. Absalom won them by flattery Sa2 15:2, Sa2 15:5, Sa2 15:10, Sa2 15:12-13; and the rebellion against David was a struggle of Israel against Judah Sa2 16:15; Sa2 17:15; Sa2 18:6. When Absalom was dead, they had scarcely aided in bringing David back, when they fell away again, because their advice had not been first had in bringing him back Sa2 19:41-43; Sa2 20:1-2. Rehoboam was already king over Judah Kg1 11:43, when he came to Shechem to be made king over Israel Kg1 12:1. Then the ten tribes sent for Jeroboam of Ephraim Kg1 11:26, to make him their spokesman, and, in the end, their king. The rival worship of Bethel provided, not only for the indolence, but for the pride of his tribe. He made a state-worship at Bethel, over-against the worship ordained by God at Jerusalem. Just before the time of Hosea, the political strength of Ephraim was so much superior to that of Judah, that Jehoash, in his pride, compared himself to the cedar of Lebanon, Amaziah king of Judah to the thistle Kg2 14:9. Isaiah speaks of "jealousy" Isa 11:13 or "envy," as the characteristic sin of Israel, which perpetuated that division, which, he foretold, should be healed in Christ. Yet although such was the power and pride of Israel, God foretold that he should first go into captivity, and so it was. This pride, as it was the origin of the schism of the ten tribes, so it was the means of its continuance. In whatever degree any one of the kings of Israel was better than the rest, still "he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, who made Israel to sin." The giving up of any other sin only showed, how deeply rooted this sin was, which even then they would not give up. As is the way of unregenerate man, they would not give themselves up without reserve to God, to do all His will. They could not give up this sin of Jeroboam, without endangering their separate existence as Israel, and owning the superiority of Judah. From this complete self-surrender to God, their pride shrank and held them back. The pride, which Israel thus showed in refusing to turn to God, and in preferring their sin to "their God," itself, he says, witnessed against them, and condemned them. In the presence of God, there needeth no other witness against the sinner than his own conscience. "it shall witness to his face," "openly, publicly, themselves and all others seeing, acknowledging, and approving the just judgment of God and the recompense of their sin." Pride and carnal sin are here remarkably united. : "The prophet having said, the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, assigns as its ground, the pride of Israel will testify to his face, i. e., the sin which, through pride of mind, lurked in secret, bore open witness through sin of the flesh. Wherefore the cleanness of chastity is to be preserved by guarding humility. For if the spirit is piously humbled before God, the flesh is not raised unlawfully above the spirit. For the spirit holds the dominion over the flesh, committed to it, if it acknowledges the claims of lawful servitude to the Lord. For if, through pride, it despises its Author, it justly incurs a contest with its subject, the flesh." Therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in - (or by) their iniquity Ephraim, the chief of the ten tribes, is distinguished from the whole, of which it was a part, because it was the rival of Judah, the royal tribe, out of which Jeroboam had sprung, who had formed the kingdom of Israel by the schism from Judah. All Israel, even its royal tribe, where was Samaria, its capital and strength, should fall, their iniquity being the stumbling-block, on which they should fall. Judah also shall fall with them - "Judah also, being partaker with them in their idolatry and their wickedness, shall partake with them in the like punishment. Sin shall have the like effect in both." Literally, he saith, "Judah hath fallen," denoting, as do other prophets, the certainty of the future event, by speaking of it, as having taken place already; as it had, in the Mind of God.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

And the pride of Israel - Pride was from the first the leading sin of Ephraim. Together with Manasseh, (with whom they made, in some respects, one whole, as "the children of Joseph, Jos 16:4; Jos 17:14), they were nearly equal in number to Judah. When numbered in the wilderness, Judah had 74,600 fighting men, Ephraim and Manasseh together 72,700. They speak of themselves as a "great people, forasmuch as the Lord has blessed me hitherto" Jos 17:14. God having chosen, out of them, the leader under whom He brought Israel into the land of promise, they resented, in the following time of the Judges, any deliverance of the land, in which they were not called to take a part. They rebuked Gideon (Jdg 8:1 ff), and suffered very severely for insolence (Jdg 12:1 ff) to Jephthah and the Gileadites. When Gideon, who had refused to be king, was dead, Abimelech, his son by a concubine out of Ephraim, induced the Ephraimites to make Him king over Israel, as being their "bone and their flesh" Jdg 8:31; Jdg 9:1-3, Jdg 9:22.

Lying in the midst of the tribes to the North of Judah, they appear, in antagonism to Judah, to have gathered round them the other tribes, and to have taken, with them, the name of Israel, in contrast with Judah Sa2 2:9-10; Sa2 3:17. Shiloh, where the ark was, until taken by the Philistines, belonged to them. Samuel, the last judge, was raised up out of them Sa1 1:1. Their political dignity was not aggrieved, when God gave Saul, out of "little Benjamin," as king over His people. They could afford to own a king out of the least tribe. Their present political eminence was endangered, when God chose David out of their great rival, the tribe of Judah; their hope for the future was cut off by His promise to the posterity of David. They accordingly upheld, for seven years Sa2 5:5, the house of Saul, knowing that they were acting against the will of God Sa2 3:9. Their religious importance was aggrieved by the removal of the ark to Zion, instead of its being restored to Shiloh Psa 78:60, Psa 78:67-69.

Absalom won them by flattery Sa2 15:2, Sa2 15:5, Sa2 15:10, Sa2 15:12-13; and the rebellion against David was a struggle of Israel against Judah Sa2 16:15; Sa2 17:15; Sa2 18:6. When Absalom was dead, they had scarcely aided in bringing David back, when they fell away again, because their advice had not been first had in bringing him back Sa2 19:41-43; Sa2 20:1-2. Rehoboam was already king over Judah Kg1 11:43, when he came to Shechem to be made king over Israel Kg1 12:1. Then the ten tribes sent for Jeroboam of Ephraim Kg1 11:26, to make him their spokesman, and, in the end, their king. The rival worship of Bethel provided, not only for the indolence, but for the pride of his tribe. He made a state-worship at Bethel, over-against the worship ordained by God at Jerusalem. Just before the time of Hosea, the political strength of Ephraim was so much superior to that of Judah, that Jehoash, in his pride, compared himself to the cedar of Lebanon, Amaziah king of Judah to the thistle Kg2 14:9. Isaiah speaks of "jealousy" Isa 11:13 or "envy," as the characteristic sin of Israel, which perpetuated that division, which, he foretold, should be healed in Christ. Yet although such was the power and pride of Israel, God foretold that he should first go into captivity, and so it was.

This pride, as it was the origin of the schism of the ten tribes, so it was the means of its continuance. In whatever degree any one of the kings of Israel was better than the rest, still "he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, who made Israel to sin." The giving up of any other sin only showed, how deeply rooted this sin was, which even then they would not give up. As is the way of unregenerate man, they would not give themselves up without reserve to God, to do all His will. They could not give up this sin of Jeroboam, without endangering their separate existence as Israel, and owning the superiority of Judah. From this complete self-surrender to God, their pride shrank and held them back.

The pride, which Israel thus showed in refusing to turn to God, and in preferring their sin to "their God," itself, he says, witnessed against them, and condemned them. In the presence of God, there needeth no other witness against the sinner than his own conscience. "it shall witness to his face," "openly, publicly, themselves and all others seeing, acknowledging, and approving the just judgment of God and the recompense of their sin." Pride and carnal sin are here remarkably united.

: "The prophet having said, the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, assigns as its ground, the pride of Israel will testify to his face, i. e., the sin which, through pride of mind, lurked in secret, bore open witness through sin of the flesh. Wherefore the cleanness of chastity is to be preserved by guarding humility. For if the spirit is piously humbled before God, the flesh is not raised unlawfully above the spirit. For the spirit holds the dominion over the flesh, committed to it, if it acknowledges the claims of lawful servitude to the Lord. For if, through pride, it despises its Author, it justly incurs a contest with its subject, the flesh."

Therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in - (or by) their iniquity Ephraim, the chief of the ten tribes, is distinguished from the whole, of which it was a part, because it was the rival of Judah, the royal tribe, out of which Jeroboam had sprung, who had formed the kingdom of Israel by the schism from Judah. All Israel, even its royal tribe, where was Samaria, its capital and strength, should fall, their iniquity being the stumbling-block, on which they should fall.

Judah also shall fall with them - "Judah also, being partaker with them in their idolatry and their wickedness, shall partake with them in the like punishment. Sin shall have the like effect in both." Literally, he saith, "Judah hath fallen," denoting, as do other prophets, the certainty of the future event, by speaking of it, as having taken place already; as it had, in the Mind of God.

The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]
Obadiah; Book of, Introduction, (See Scofield) - (Oba 1:1). Offerings; law of, the order, (See Scofield) - (Lev 7:11). Oil; symbol of the Holy Spirit, (See Scofield) - (Exo 27:20). (See Scofield) - (Exo 30:31). (See Scofield) - (Act 2:4). Old; man, out, phrase defined, (See Scofield) - (Rom 6:6). Olive; trees, Zechariah's vision of, (See Scofield) - (Zac 4:2). Olives; Mount of, scene of second advent, (See Scofield) - (Zac 14:4). Olivet; discourse, interpretation, (See Scofield) - (Mat 24:3). Ornan; threshing floor of, (See Scofield) - (Ch1 21:25).

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
"And the pride of Ephraim will testify against its face, and Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their guilt; Judah has also stumbled with them." As the meaning "to answer," to bear witness against a person, is well established in the case of ענה ב (cf. Num 35:30; Deu 19:18, and Isa 3:9), and ענה בפנים also occurs in Job 16:8 in this sense, we must retain the same meaning here, as Jerome and others have done. And there is the more reason for this, because the explanation based upon the lxx, καὶ ταπεινωθήσεται ἡ ὕβρις, "the haughtiness of Israel will be humbled," can hardly be reconciled with בפניו. "The pride of Israel," moreover, is not the haughtiness of Israel, but that of which Israel is proud, or rather the glory of Israel. We might understand by this the flourishing condition of the kingdom, after Amo 6:8; but it would be only by its decay that this would bear witness against the sin of Israel, so that "the glory of Israel" would stand for "the decay of that glory," which would be extremely improbable. We must therefore explain "the glory of Israel" here and in Hos 7:10 in accordance with Amo 8:7, i.e., we must understand it as referring to Jehovah, who is Israel's eminence and glory; in which case we obtain the following very appropriate thought: They know not Jehovah, they do not concern themselves about Him; therefore He Himself will bear witness by judgments, by the destruction of their false glory (cf. Hos 2:10-14), against the face of Israel, i.e., bear witness to their face. This thought occurs without ambiguity in Hos 7:10. Israel will stumble in its sin, i.e., will fall and perish (as in Hos 4:5). Judah also falls with Israel, because it has participated in Israel's sin (Hos 4:15).

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Doth testify - Is an evident witness against him.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
The pride of Israel doth testify to his face - The effrontery with which they practise idolatry manifests, not only their insolence, but the deep depravity of their heart; but their pride and arrogance shall be humbled.

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¹⁵ Though thou, Israel [03478], play the harlot [02181], yet let not Judah [03063] offend [0816]; and come [0935] not ye unto Gilgal [01537], neither go ye up [05927] to Bethaven [01007], nor swear [07650], The LORD [03068] liveth [02416].

⁹ The shew [01971] of their countenance [06440] doth witness against them [06030]; and they declare [05046] their sin [02403] as Sodom [05467], they hide [03582] it not. Woe [0188] unto their soul [05315]! for they have rewarded [01580] evil [07451] unto themselves.

¹⁷ But if ye will not hear [08085] it, my soul [05315] shall weep [01058] in secret places [04565] for [06440] your pride [01466]; and mine eye [05869] shall weep [01830] sore [01830], and run down [03381] with tears [01832], because the LORD'S [03068] flock [05739] is carried away captive [07617].

¹⁰ And the pride [01347] of Israel [03478] testifieth [06030] to his face [06440]: and they do not return [07725] to the LORD [03068] their God [0430], nor seek [01245] him for all this.

² And the revolters [07846] are profound [06009] to make slaughter [07819], though I have been a rebuker [04148] of them all.

¹³ The envy [07068] also of Ephraim [0669] shall depart [05493], and the adversaries [06887] of Judah [03063] shall be cut off [03772]: Ephraim [0669] shall not envy [07065] Judah [03063], and Judah [03063] shall not vex [06887] Ephraim [0669].

⁹ And Jehoash [03060] the king [04428] of Israel [03478] sent [07971] to Amaziah [0558] king [04428] of Judah [03063], saying [0559], The thistle [02336] that was in Lebanon [03844] sent [07971] to the cedar [0730] that was in Lebanon [03844], saying [0559], Give [05414] thy daughter [01323] to my son [01121] to wife [0802]: and there passed [05674] by a wild [07704] beast [02416] that was in Lebanon [03844], and trode down [07429] the thistle [02336].

²⁶ And Jeroboam [03379] the son [01121] of Nebat [05028], an Ephrathite [0673] of Zereda [06868], Solomon's [08010] servant [05650], whose mother's [0517] name [08034] was Zeruah [06871], a widow [0490] woman [0802], even he lifted up [07311] his hand [03027] against the king [04428].

¹ And Rehoboam [07346] went [03212] to Shechem [07927]: for all Israel [03478] were come [0935] to Shechem [07927] to make him king [04427].

⁴³ And Solomon [08010] slept [07901] with his fathers [01], and was buried [06912] in the city [05892] of David [01732] his father [01]: and Rehoboam [07346] his son [01121] reigned [04427] in his stead.

¹ And there happened [07122] to be there a man [0376] of Belial [01100], whose name [08034] was Sheba [07652], the son [01121] of Bichri [01075], a Benjamite [01145]: and he blew [08628] a trumpet [07782], and said [0559], We have no part [02506] in David [01732], neither have we inheritance [05159] in the son [01121] of Jesse [03448]: every [0376] man [0376] to his tents [0168], O Israel [03478].
² So every man [0376] of Israel [03478] went up [05927] from after [0310] David [01732], and followed [0310] Sheba [07652] the son [01121] of Bichri [01075]: but the men [0376] of Judah [03063] clave [01692] unto their king [04428], from Jordan [03383] even to Jerusalem [03389].

⁴¹ And, behold, all the men [0376] of Israel [03478] came [0935] to the king [04428], and said [0559] unto the king [04428], Why have our brethren [0251] the men [0376] of Judah [03063] stolen thee away [01589], and have brought [05674] the king [04428], and his household [01004], and all David's [01732] men [0582] with him, over Jordan [03383]?
⁴² And all the men [0376] of Judah [03063] answered [06030] the men [0376] of Israel [03478], Because the king [04428] is near of kin [07138] to us: wherefore then be ye angry [02734] for this matter [01697]? have we eaten [0398] at all [0398] of the king's [04428] cost? or hath he given [05375] us any gift [05379]?
⁴³ And the men [0376] of Israel [03478] answered [06030] the men [0376] of Judah [03063], and said [0559], We have ten [06235] parts [03027] in the king [04428], and we [0589] have also more right in David [01732] than ye: why then did ye despise [07043] us, that our advice [01697] should not be first [07223] had in bringing back [07725] our king [04428]? And the words [01697] of the men [0376] of Judah [03063] were fiercer [07185] than the words [01697] of the men [0376] of Israel [03478].

⁶ So the people [05971] went out [03318] into the field [07704] against [07125] Israel [03478]: and the battle [04421] was in the wood [03293] of Ephraim [0669];

¹⁵ Then said [0559] Hushai [02365] unto Zadok [06659] and to Abiathar [054] the priests [03548], Thus and thus did Ahithophel [0302] counsel [03289] Absalom [053] and the elders [02205] of Israel [03478]; and thus and thus have I counselled [03289].

¹⁵ And Absalom [053], and all the people [05971] the men [0376] of Israel [03478], came [0935] to Jerusalem [03389], and Ahithophel [0302] with him.

¹² And Absalom [053] sent [07971] for Ahithophel [0302] the Gilonite [01526], David's [01732] counsellor [03289], from his city [05892], even from Giloh [01542], while he offered [02076] sacrifices [02077]. And the conspiracy [07195] was strong [0533]; for the people [05971] increased [07227] continually [01980] with Absalom [053].
¹³ And there came [0935] a messenger [05046] to David [01732], saying [0559], The hearts [03820] of the men [0376] of Israel [03478] are after [0310] Absalom [053].

¹⁰ But Absalom [053] sent [07971] spies [07270] throughout all the tribes [07626] of Israel [03478], saying [0559], As soon as ye hear [08085] the sound [06963] of the trumpet [07782], then ye shall say [0559], Absalom [053] reigneth [04427] in Hebron [02275].

⁵ And it was so, that when any man [0376] came nigh [07126] to him to do him obeisance [07812], he put forth [07971] his hand [03027], and took [02388] him, and kissed [05401] him.

² And Absalom [053] rose up early [07925], and stood [05975] beside [03027] the way [01870] of the gate [08179]: and it was so, that when any man [0376] that had a controversy [07379] came [0935] to the king [04428] for judgment [04941], then Absalom [053] called [07121] unto him, and said [0559], Of what [0335] city [05892] art thou? And he said [0559], Thy servant [05650] is of one [0259] of the tribes [07626] of Israel [03478].

⁶⁷ Moreover he refused [03988] the tabernacle [0168] of Joseph [03130], and chose [0977] not the tribe [07626] of Ephraim [0669]:
⁶⁸ But chose [0977] the tribe [07626] of Judah [03063], the mount [02022] Zion [06726] which he loved [0157].
⁶⁹ And he built [01129] his sanctuary [04720] like high [07311] palaces, like the earth [0776] which he hath established [03245] for ever [05769].

⁶⁰ So that he forsook [05203] the tabernacle [04908] of Shiloh [07887], the tent [0168] which he placed [07931] among men [0120];

⁹ So do [06213] God [0430] to Abner [074], and more also [03254], except, as the LORD [03068] hath sworn [07650] to David [01732], even so I do [06213] to him;

⁵ In Hebron [02275] he reigned [04427] over Judah [03063] seven [07651] years [08141] and six [08337] months [02320]: and in Jerusalem [03389] he reigned [04427] thirty [07970] and three [07969] years [08141] over all Israel [03478] and Judah [03063].

¹ Now there was a certain [0259] man [0376] of Ramathaimzophim [07436], of mount [02022] Ephraim [0669], and his name [08034] was Elkanah [0511], the son [01121] of Jeroham [03395], the son [01121] of Elihu [0453], the son [01121] of Tohu [08459], the son [01121] of Zuph [06689], an Ephrathite [0673]:

¹⁷ And Abner [074] had communication [01961] [01697] with the elders [02205] of Israel [03478], saying [0559], Ye sought [01245] for David [01732] in times [08543] past [08032] to be king [04428] over you:

⁹ And made him king [04427] over Gilead [01568], and over the Ashurites [0805], and over Jezreel [03157], and over Ephraim [0669], and over Benjamin [01144], and over all Israel [03478].
¹⁰ Ishbosheth [0378] Saul's [07586] son [01121] was forty [0705] years [08141] old [01121] when he began to reign [04427] over Israel [03478], and reigned [04427] two [08147] years [08141]. But the house [01004] of Judah [03063] followed [0310] David [01732].

²² When Abimelech [040] had reigned [07786] three [07969] years [08141] over Israel [03478],

¹ And Abimelech [040] the son [01121] of Jerubbaal [03378] went [03212] to Shechem [07927] unto his mother's [0517] brethren [0251], and communed [01696] with them, and with all the family [04940] of the house [01004] of his mother's [0517] father [01], saying [0559],
² Speak [01696], I pray you, in the ears [0241] of all the men [01167] of Shechem [07927], Whether is better [02896] for you, either that all the sons [01121] of Jerubbaal [03378], which are threescore and ten [07657] persons [0376], reign [04910] over you, or that one [0259] reign [04910] over you? remember [02142] also that I am your bone [06106] and your flesh [01320].
³ And his mother's [0517] brethren [0251] spake [01696] of him in the ears [0241] of all the men [01167] of Shechem [07927] all these words [01697]: and their hearts [03820] inclined [05186] to follow [0310] Abimelech [040]; for they said [0559], He is our brother [0251].

³¹ And his concubine [06370] that was in Shechem [07927], she also bare [03205] him a son [01121], whose name [08034] he called [07760] Abimelech [040].

¹ And the men [0376] of Ephraim [0669] gathered themselves together [06817], and went [05674] northward [06828], and said [0559] unto Jephthah [03316], Wherefore passedst thou over [05674] to fight [03898] against the children [01121] of Ammon [05983], and didst not call [07121] us to go [03212] with thee? we will burn [08313] thine house [01004] upon thee with fire [0784].

¹ And the men [0376] of Ephraim [0669] said [0559] unto him, Why hast thou [04100] served [06213] us thus [01697], that thou calledst [07121] us not, when thou wentest [01980] to fight [03898] with the Midianites [04080]? And they did chide [07378] with him sharply [02394].

¹⁴ And the children [01121] of Joseph [03130] spake [01696] unto Joshua [03091], saying [0559], Why hast thou given [05414] me but one [0259] lot [01486] and one [0259] portion [02256] to inherit [05159], seeing I am a great [07227] people [05971], forasmuch as [05704] the LORD [03068] hath blessed [01288] me hitherto [03541]?

⁴ So the children [01121] of Joseph [03130], Manasseh [04519] and Ephraim [0669], took their inheritance [05157].

²⁵ So David [01732] gave [05414] to Ornan [0771] for the place [04725] six [08337] hundred [03967] shekels [08255] of gold [02091] by weight [04948].

³ And [1161] as he [846] sat [2521] upon [1909] the mount [3735] of Olives [1636], the disciples [3101] came [4334] unto him [846] privately [2596] [2398], saying [3004], Tell [2036] us [2254], when [4219] shall [2071] these things [5023] be [2071]? and [2532] what [5101] shall be the sign [4592] of thy [4674] coming [3952], and [2532] of the end [4930] of the world [165]?

⁴ And his feet [07272] shall stand [05975] in that day [03117] upon the mount [02022] of Olives [02132], which is before [06440] Jerusalem [03389] on the east [06924], and the mount [02022] of Olives [02132] shall cleave [01234] in the midst [02677] thereof toward the east [04217] and toward the west [03220], and there shall be a very [03966] great [01419] valley [01516]; and half [02677] of the mountain [02022] shall remove [04185] toward the north [06828], and half [02677] of it toward the south [05045].

² And said [0559] unto me, What seest [07200] thou? And I said [0559], I have looked [07200], and behold a candlestick [04501] all of gold [02091], with a bowl [01531] upon the top [07218] of it, and his seven [07651] lamps [05216] thereon, and seven [07651] pipes [04166] to the seven [07651] lamps [05216], which are upon the top [07218] thereof:

⁶ Knowing [1097] this [5124], that [3754] our [2257] old [3820] man [444] is crucified with [4957] him, that [2443] the body [4983] of sin [266] might be destroyed [2673], that henceforth [3371] we [2248] should [1398] not [3371] serve [1398] sin [266].

⁴ And [2532] they were [4130] all [537] filled [4130] with the Holy [40] Ghost [4151], and [2532] began [756] to speak with [2980] other [2087] tongues [1100], as [2531] the Spirit [4151] gave [1325] them [846] utterance [669].

³¹ And thou shalt speak [01696] unto the children [01121] of Israel [03478], saying [0559], This shall be an holy [06944] anointing [04888] oil [08081] unto me throughout your generations [01755].

²⁰ And thou shalt command [06680] the children [01121] of Israel [03478], that they bring [03947] thee pure [02134] oil [08081] olive [02132] beaten [03795] for the light [03974], to cause the lamp [05216] to burn [05927] always [08548].

¹¹ And this is the law [08451] of the sacrifice [02077] of peace offerings [08002], which he shall offer [07126] unto the LORD [03068].

¹ The vision [02377] of Obadiah [05662]. Thus saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069] concerning Edom [0123]; We have heard [08085] a rumour [08052] from the LORD [03068], and an ambassador [06735] is sent [07971] among the heathen [01471], Arise [06965] ye, and let us rise up [06965] against her in battle [04421].

⁵ Therefore shalt thou fall [03782] in the day [03117], and the prophet [05030] also shall fall [03782] with thee in the night [03915], and I will destroy [01820] thy mother [0517].

¹⁰ And the pride [01347] of Israel [03478] testifieth [06030] to his face [06440]: and they do not return [07725] to the LORD [03068] their God [0430], nor seek [01245] him for all this.

¹⁰ And now will I discover [01540] her lewdness [05040] in the sight [05869] of her lovers [0157], and none [0376] shall deliver [05337] her out of mine hand [03027].
¹¹ I will also cause all her mirth [04885] to cease [07673], her feast days [02282], her new moons [02320], and her sabbaths [07676], and all her solemn feasts [04150].
¹² And I will destroy [08074] her vines [01612] and her fig trees [08384], whereof she hath said [0559], These are my rewards [0866] that my lovers [0157] have given [05414] me: and I will make [07760] them a forest [03293], and the beasts [02416] of the field [07704] shall eat [0398] them.
¹³ And I will visit [06485] upon her the days [03117] of Baalim [01168], wherein she burned incense [06999] to them, and she decked [05710] herself with her earrings [05141] and her jewels [02484], and she went [03212] after [0310] her lovers [0157], and forgat [07911] me, saith [05002] the LORD [03068].
¹⁴ Therefore, behold, I will allure [06601] her, and bring [03212] her into the wilderness [04057], and speak [01696] comfortably [03820] unto her.

⁷ The LORD [03068] hath sworn [07650] by the excellency [01347] of Jacob [03290], Surely I will never [05331] forget [07911] any of their works [04639].

¹⁰ And the pride [01347] of Israel [03478] testifieth [06030] to his face [06440]: and they do not return [07725] to the LORD [03068] their God [0430], nor seek [01245] him for all this.

⁸ The Lord [0136] GOD [03069] hath sworn [07650] by himself [05315], saith [05002] the LORD [03068] the God [0430] of hosts [06635], I abhor [08374] the excellency [01347] of Jacob [03290], and hate [08130] his palaces [0759]: therefore will I deliver up [05462] the city [05892] with all that is therein [04393].

⁸ And thou hast filled me with wrinkles [07059], which is a witness [05707] against me: and my leanness [03585] rising up [06965] in me beareth witness [06030] to my face [06440].

¹⁸ And the judges [08199] shall make diligent [03190] inquisition [01875]: and, behold, if the witness [05707] be a false [08267] witness [05707], and hath testified [06030] falsely [08267] against his brother [0251];

³⁰ Whoso killeth [05221] any person [05315], the murderer [07523] shall be put to death [07523] by the mouth [06310] of witnesses [05707]: but one [0259] witness [05707] shall not testify [06030] against any person [05315] to cause him to die [04191].