Hosea 9:3

Hosea 9:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)They shall not dwell in the Lord’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
• New International Version (NIV)They will not remain in the Lord’s land; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
• English Standard Version (ESV)They shall not remain in the land of the Lord, but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
• New King James Version (NKJV)They shall not dwell in the Lord’s land, But Ephraim shall return to Egypt, And shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

Context of Hosea 9:3

1Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations! For you have played the harlot, forsaking your God. You have loved harlots’ earnings on every threshing floor. 2Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them, And the new wine will fail them. They will not remain in the Lord’s land, But Ephraim will return to Egypt, And in Assyria they will eat unclean food. 4They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the Lord, Their sacrifices will not please Him. Their bread will be like mourners’ bread; All who eat of it will be defiled, For their bread will be for themselves alone; It will not enter the house of the Lord. 5What will you do on the day of the appointed festival And on the day of the feast of the Lord?

Hosea 9:3 word by word

לֹ֥א יֵשְׁב֖וּ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ יְהוָ֑ה וְשָׁ֤ב אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ מִצְרַ֔יִם וּבְאַשּׁ֖וּר טָמֵ֥א יֹאכֵֽלוּ׃Read the interlinear

• They will not remainיָשַׁבyâshab · to dwellH3427
• the Lord’sיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• But Ephraimאֶפְרַ֫יִם'ephrayim · EphraimH669
• will returnשׁוּבshûb · to return: returnH7725
• Egyptמִצְרַ֫יִםmitsrayim · EgyptH4714
• Assyriaאַשּׁוּר'ashshûr 'ashshûr · AssyriaH804
• they will eatאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• uncleanטָמֵאţâmê' · uncleanH2931

Cross-references for Hosea 9:3

• Leviticus 18:28so that the land will not spew you out, should you defile it, as it has spewed out the nation which has been before you.
• Leviticus 20:22‘You are therefore to keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them, so that the land to which I am bringing you to live will not spew you out.
• Deuteronomy 4:26I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will surely perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to possess it. You shall not live long on it, but will be utterly destroyed.
• Deuteronomy 28:63It shall come about that as the Lord delighted over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the Lord will delight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be torn from the land where you are entering to possess it.
• Joshua 23:15It shall come about that just as all the good words which the Lord your God spoke to you have come upon you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the threats, until He has destroyed you from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you.
• 1 Kings 9:7then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will cast out of My sight. So Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
• Micah 2:10Arise and go, For this is no place of rest Because of the uncleanness that brings on destruction, A painful destruction.
• Leviticus 25:23‘The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are but aliens and sojourners with Me.
• Jeremiah 2:7I brought you into the fruitful land To eat its fruit and its good things. But you came and defiled My land, And My inheritance you made an abomination.
• Jeremiah 16:18I will first doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable idols and with their abominations.”
• Hosea 9:6For behold, they will go because of destruction; Egypt will gather them up, Memphis will bury them. Weeds will take over their treasures of silver; Thorns will be in their tents.
• Hosea 8:13As for My sacrificial gifts, They sacrifice the flesh and eat it, But the Lord has taken no delight in them. Now He will remember their iniquity, And punish them for their sins; They will return to Egypt.
• Hosea 11:5They will not return to the land of Egypt; But Assyria--he will be their king Because they refused to return to Me.
• Deuteronomy 28:68The Lord will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I spoke to you, ‘You will never see it again!’ And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”
• Isaiah 11:15And the Lord will utterly destroy The tongue of the Sea of Egypt; And He will wave His hand over the River With His scorching wind; And He will strike it into seven streams And make men walk over dry-shod.
• Ezekiel 4:13Then the Lord said, “Thus will the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will banish them.”

Commentaries on Hosea 9:3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3But Ephraim shall return to Egypt - See on Hosea 8:12; (note).Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3They shall not dwell in the Lord‘s land. The earth is the Lord‘s and the fulness thereof - Yet He had chosen the land of Canaan, there to place His people; there, above others, to work His miracles; there to reveal Himself; there to send His Son to take our flesh. He had put Israel in possession of it, to hold it under Him on condition of obedience. Contrariwise, God had denounced to them again and again; “if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3God would send the Israelites into exile in Assyria in 722 BC. There, in a land considered unclean, they would eat food that was ceremonially unclean. This would separate them even more from their covenant with the Lord.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. return to Egypt--(See on Ho 8:13). As in Ho 11:5 it is said, "He shall not return into ... Egypt." Fairbairn thinks it is not the exact country that is meant, but the bondage state with which, from past experience, Egypt was identified in their minds. Assyria was to be a second Egypt to them. De 28:68, though threatening a return to Egypt, speaks (De 28:36) of their being brought to a nation which neither they nor their fathers had known, showing that…Read the comment

Topics related to Hosea 9:3

• Assyria
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In the dictionaries

• Assyria
• Egypt
• Ephraim
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• Deeply
• Depart
• Mad
• Miscarrying
• Palestine
• Deuteronomy

Commentaries on Hosea 9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings