Hosea 8:9
For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
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Hosea 8:9
For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
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Hosea 7:11
“Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.
Hosea 5:13
“When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.
Hosea 8:8
Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
Hosea 8:9
For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
Hosea 8:10
But although they sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.
2 Kings 15:19
Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul one thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
2 Kings 15:20
Menahem exacted the money from Israel, even from all the mighty men of wealth, from each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and didn’t stay there in the land.
2 Kings 17:3
Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute.
2 Kings 17:4
The king of Assyria discovered a conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria seized him, and bound him in prison.
Ezekiel 23:4
Their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.
Ezekiel 23:5
“Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,
Ezekiel 23:6
who were clothed with blue—governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
Ezekiel 23:7
She gave herself as a prostitute to them, all of them the choicest men of Assyria. She defiled herself with the idols of whoever she lusted after.
Ezekiel 23:8
She hasn’t left her prostitution since leaving Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her. They caressed her youthful nipples and they poured out their prostitution on her.
2 Kings 16:7
So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.”
2 Kings 16:8
Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in Yahweh’s house, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.
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Hosea 12:1
Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.
Hosea 10:6
It also will be carried to Assyria for a present to a great king. Ephraim will receive shame, and Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel.
Hosea 7:8
Ephraim mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.
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Jeremiah 2:24
a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs the wind in her craving. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.
Job 39:5
“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,
Job 39:6
whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?
Job 39:7
He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.
Job 39:8
The range of the mountains is his pasture. He searches after every green thing.
Genesis 16:12
He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will live opposed to all of his brothers.”
Job 11:12
An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.
Job 24:5
Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
Job 6:5
Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?
Psalms 104:11
They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst.
Isaiah 32:14
For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks,
Jeremiah 14:6
The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights. They pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail, because there is no vegetation.
Daniel 5:21
He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.
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Ezekiel 16:33
People give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.
Ezekiel 16:34
You are different from other women in your prostitution, in that no one follows you to play the prostitute; and whereas you give hire, and no hire is given to you, therefore you are different.” ’
Hosea 2:5
For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
Hosea 2:7
She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, for then it was better with me than now.’
Hosea 2:12
I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me,’ and I will make them a forest, and the animals of the field shall eat them.
Hosea 2:13
I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers and forgot me,” says Yahweh.
Micah 1:7
All her idols will be beaten to pieces, all her temple gifts will be burned with fire, and I will destroy all her images; for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return.”
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Isaiah 30:6
The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.
Isaiah 30:7
For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.
Isaiah 30:1
“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;
Isaiah 30:2
who set out to go down into Egypt without asking for my advice, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!
Isaiah 30:3
Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
Isaiah 31:1
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don’t look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don’t seek Yahweh!
Isaiah 31:2
Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.
Isaiah 31:3
Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
Jeremiah 2:18
Now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or why do you to go on the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
Hosea 14:3
Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”
2 Chronicles 16:7
At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him, “Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on Yahweh your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped out of your hand.
Isaiah 57:9
You went to the king with oil, increased your perfumes, sent your ambassadors far off, and degraded yourself even to Sheol.
Jeremiah 2:36
Why do you go about so much to change your ways? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
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Hosea 8:2
They cry to me, ‘My God, we, Israel, acknowledge you!’
Hosea 8:11
Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.
Hosea 8:13
As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but Yahweh doesn’t accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.
Hosea 8:14
For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses.”
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