Hosea 13:1
Good News Translation
In the past, when the tribe of Ephraim spoke, the other tribes of Israel were afraid; they looked up to Ephraim. But the people sinned by worshiping Baal, and for this they will die.

New Revised Standard Version
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel; but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.

Contemporary English Version
When your leaders spoke, everyone in Israel trembled and showed great respect. But you sinned by worshiping Baal, and you were destroyed.

New American Bible
When Ephraim spoke there was terror; he was exalted in Israel; but he became guilty through Baal and died.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When Ephraim spoke, a horror seized Israel: and he sinned in Baal, and died.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

When Ephraim spoke, a horror seized Israel: and he sinned in Baal, and died.

Ephraim.

1 Samuel 15:17 And Samuel said: When thou wast a little one in thy own eyes, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel? And the Lord anointed thee to be king over Israel.

Proverbs 18:12 Before destruction, the heart of a man is exalted: and before he be glorified, it is humbled.

Isaiah 66:2 My hand made all these things, and all these things were made, saith the Lord. But to whom shall I have respect, but to him that is poor and little, and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my words?

Luke 14:11 Because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

exalted.

Numbers 2:18-21 On the west side shall be the camp of the sons of Ephraim, whose prince was Elisama the son of Ammiud. . . .

Numbers 10:22 The sons of Ephraim also moved their camp by their troops, in whose army the prince was Elisama the son of Ammiud.

Numbers 13:8,16 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Osee the son of Nun. . . .

Numbers 27:16-23 May the Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh provide a man, that may be over this multitude: . . .

Joshua 3:7 And the Lord said to Joshua: This day will I begin to exalt thee before Israel: that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I am with thee also.

1 Kings 12:25 And Jeroboam built Sichem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt there, and going out from thence, he built Phanuel.

offended.

Hosea 11:2 As they called them, they went away from before their face: they offered victims to Baalim, and sacrificed to idols.

1 Kings 16:29-33 Now Achab, the son of Amri, reigned over Israel in the eight and thirtieth year of Asa, king of Juda. And Achab, the son of Amri, reigned over Israel in Samaria two and twenty years. . . .

1 Kings 18:18,19 And he said: I have not troubled Israel, but thou and thy father's house, who have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and have followed Baalim. . . .

2 Kings 17:16-18 And they forsook all the precepts of the Lord, their God: and made to themselves two molten calves, and groves, and adored all the host of heaven: and they served Baal, . . .

died.

Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat. For in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death.

Romans 5:12 Wherefore as by one man sin entered into this world and by sin death: and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned.

2 Corinthians 5:14 For the charity of Christ presseth us: judging this, that if one died for all, then all were dead.

Context
Ephraim's Glory Vanishes
1When Ephraim spoke, a horror seized Israel: and he sinned in Baal, and died.2And now they have sinned more and more: and they have made to themselves a molten thing of their silver as the likeness of idols: the whole is the work of craftsmen: to these that say: Sacrifice men, ye that adore calves.…
Cross References
Judges 8:1
And the men of Ephraim said to him: What is this that thou meanest to do, that thou wouldst not call us, when thou wentest to fight against Madian? And they chid him sharply, and almost offered violence.

Judges 12:1
But behold there arose a sedition in Ephraim. And passing towards the north, they said to Jephte: When thou wentest to fight against the children of Ammon, why wouldst thou not call us, that we might go with thee? Therefore we will burn thy house.

Job 29:21
They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel.

Job 29:22
To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them.

Hosea 2:8
And she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver, and gold, which they have used in the service of Baal.

Hosea 8:4
They have reigned, but not by me: they have been princes, and I knew not: of their silver and their gold they have made idols to themselves, that they might perish.

Hosea 11:2
As they called them, they went away from before their face: they offered victims to Baalim, and sacrificed to idols.

Hosea 12:14
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