Hosea 5:12 Therefore will I be to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. The mention of the moth in Scripture is, with a single exception, confined to the destruction caused in clothing by the larvae of the little clothes' moth (Tineidae), of which very many species are found in Palestine. No other lepidopterous insect is alluded to in Scripture, and the class, including butterflies and moths, is not very numerously represented in the Holy Land, the dry climate of which, together with the scarcity of wood, is not particularly favourable to the development of this group. The number of recorded species in the Holy Land is about two hundred and eighty. (Canon Tristram.) Parallel Verses KJV: Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.WEB: Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness. |
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