Nave’s Topical Bible
Ephraim
71 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Second son of Joseph
- Adopted by Jacob
- Blessed before Manasseh; prophecies concerning
- Descendants of
- Mourned for his sons
- A tribe of Israel
- Prophecy concerning
Genesis 49:25-26; Isaiah 7; Isaiah 9:18-21; Isaiah 11:13; Isaiah 28:1; Jeremiah 31; Hosea 5:14; Zechariah 9:10; Zechariah 10:7
- Numbered at Mount Sinai and in plains of Moab
- Position in camp and march
- Blessed by Moses
- Territory allotted to, after the conquest of Canaan
- Failed to expel the Canaanites
- Captured Beth-el in battle
- Rebuked Gideon for not summoning them to join the war Against the Midianites
- Joined Gideon against the Midianites
- Their jealousy of Jephthah
- Defeated by him
- Received Ish-bosheth as king
- Jeroboam set up a golden calf in Beth-el
- Revolted from house of David
- Some of tribe joined Judah under Asa
- Chastised Ahaz and Judah
- Joined Hezekiah in reinstituting the Passover
- Joined in the destruction of idolatrous forms in Jerusalem
- Submitted to the scepter of Josiah
- Envied by other tribes
- Worshiped Baal
- Sin of, remembered by God
- Reallotment of territory, to, by Ezekiel
- Name of, applied to the ten tribes
2 Chronicles 17:2; 2 Chronicles 25:6-7; Isaiah 7:8-9; Isaiah 11:12-13; Isaiah 17:3; Jeremiah 31:18,20; Hosea 4:17; Hosea 5:3,5; Hosea 6:4,10; Hosea 8:11; Hosea 12:14
- Tribe of, called JOSEPH
- Prophecy concerning
- Mount of
- A range of low mountains
- Joshua has his inheritance in
- Residence of Micah
- A place of hiding for Israelites
- Sheba resides in
- Noted for rich pastures
- Prophecy concerning its conversion
- A forest east of the Jordan River
- Absalom killed in
- A gate of Jerusalem
2 Kings 14:13; 2 Chronicles 25:23; Nehemiah 8:16; Nehemiah 12:39
- A city in the territory of Ephraim
- Jesus escapes to, from the persecution of Caiaphas
Bible verses about “Ephraim”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Genesis 41:52And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
- Genesis 48:5And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
- Genesis 48:14And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.
- Genesis 48:15And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,
- Genesis 48:16The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
- Genesis 48:17And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head unto Manasseh’s head.
- Genesis 48:18And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
- Genesis 48:19And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
- Genesis 48:20And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
- Numbers 26:35These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher, the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
- Numbers 26:36And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.
- Numbers 26:37These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.
- 1 Chronicles 7:20And the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son,
- 1 Chronicles 7:21And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.
- 1 Chronicles 7:22And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
- 1 Chronicles 7:23And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.
- 1 Chronicles 7:24(And his daughter was Sherah, who built Beth–horon the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen–sherah.)
- 1 Chronicles 7:25And Rephah was his son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,
- 1 Chronicles 7:26Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
- 1 Chronicles 7:27Non his son, Jehoshua his son.
- Genesis 49:25Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
- Genesis 49:26The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
- Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
- Isaiah 9:19Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
- Isaiah 9:20And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
- Isaiah 9:21Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
- Isaiah 11:13The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
- Isaiah 28:1Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
- Hosea 5:14For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
- Zechariah 9:10And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
- Zechariah 10:7And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the Lord.
- Numbers 1:33Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.
- Numbers 2:18On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
- Numbers 2:24All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were an hundred thousand and eight thousand and an hundred, throughout their armies. And they shall go forward in the third rank.
- Numbers 10:22And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud.
- Deuteronomy 33:13And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the Lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,
- Deuteronomy 33:14And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,
- Deuteronomy 33:15And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,
- Deuteronomy 33:16And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.
- Deuteronomy 33:17His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.