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 Living Translation (NLT)You may no longer stay here in the Lord’s land. Instead, you will return to Egypt, and in Assyria you will eat food that is ceremonially unclean.

Context of Hosea 9:3

1Do not rejoice, O Israel, with joy like other peoples, For you have played the harlot against your God. You have made love for hire on every threshing floor. 2The threshing floor and the winepress Shall not feed them, And the new wine shall fail in her. They shall not dwell in the Lord’s land, But Ephraim shall return to Egypt, And shall eat unclean things in Assyria. 4They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord, Nor shall their sacrifices be pleasing to Him. It shall be like bread of mourners to them; All who eat it shall be defiled. For their bread shall be for their own life; It shall not come into the house of the Lord. 5What will you do in the appointed day, And in 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

Words taken from the KJV.

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

Cross-references for Hosea 9:3

• Leviticus 18:28lest the land vomit you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
• Leviticus 20:22‘You shall therefore keep all My statutes and all My judgments, and perform them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out.
• Deuteronomy 4:26I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess; you will not prolong your days in it, but will be utterly destroyed.
• Deuteronomy 28:63And it shall be, that just as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked from off the land which you go to possess.
• Joshua 23:15Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all the good things have come upon you which the Lord your God promised you, so the Lord will bring upon you all harmful things, until He has destroyed you from 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 this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight. Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
• Micah 2:10“Arise and depart, For this is not your rest; Because it is defiled, it shall destroy, Yes, with utter destruction.
• Leviticus 25:23‘The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with Me.
• Jeremiah 2:7I brought you into a bountiful country, To eat its fruit and its goodness. But when you entered, you defiled My land And made My heritage an abomination.
• Jeremiah 16:18And first I will repay double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable idols.”
• Hosea 9:6For indeed they are gone because of destruction. Egypt shall gather them up; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their valuables of silver; Thorns shall be in their tents.
• Hosea 8:13For the sacrifices of My offerings they sacrifice flesh and eat it, But the Lord does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins. They shall return to Egypt.
• Hosea 11:5“He shall not return to the land of Egypt; But the Assyrian shall be his king, Because they refused to repent.
• Deuteronomy 28:68“And the Lord will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, ‘You shall never see it again.’ And there you shall be offered for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
• Isaiah 11:15The Lord will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt; With His mighty wind He will shake His fist over the River, And strike it in the seven streams, And make men cross over dry-shod.
• Ezekiel 4:13Then the Lord said, “So shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive 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
• Backsliders
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In the dictionaries

• Assyria
• Egypt
• Ephraim
• Cornfloor
• 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