Discovery Box| (0.38) | Hos 7:8 |
| Ephraim has mixed itself like flour 1 among the nations; Ephraim is like a ruined cake of bread that is scorched on one side. 2 |
| (0.38) | Hos 7:11 |
| Ephraim has been like a dove, easily deceived and lacking discernment. They called to Egypt for help; they turned to Assyria for protection. |
| (0.38) | Hos 8:6 |
| That idol was made by a workman – it is not God! The calf idol of Samaria will be broken to bits. |
| (0.38) | Hos 9:11 |
| Ephraim will be like a bird; what they value 1 will fly away. They will not bear children – they will not enjoy pregnancy – they will not even conceive! 2 |
| (0.38) | Hos 10:1 |
| Israel was a fertile vine that yielded fruit. As his fruit multiplied, he multiplied altars to Baal. 1 As his land prospered, they adorned the fertility pillars. |
| (0.38) | Hos 10:3 |
| Very soon they will say, “We have no king since we did not fear the Lord. But what can a king do for us anyway?” |
| (0.38) | Hos 10:4 |
| They 1 utter empty words, 2 taking 3 false oaths and making empty 4 agreements. Therefore legal disputes sprout up like poisonous weeds 5 in the furrows of a plowed field. |
| (0.38) | Hos 11:6 |
| A sword will flash in their cities, it will destroy the bars of their city gates, and will devour them in their fortresses. |
| (0.38) | Hos 11:10 |
| He will roar like a lion, and they will follow the Lord; when he roars, his children will come trembling 1 from the west. |
| (0.38) | Hos 12:2 |
| The Lord also has a covenant lawsuit 1 against Judah; he will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds. |
| (0.38) | Hos 12:12 |
| Jacob fled to the country of Aram, then Israel worked 1 to acquire a wife; he tended sheep to pay for her. |
| (0.38) | Hos 13:13 |
| The labor pains of a woman will overtake him, but the baby will lack wisdom; when the time arrives, he will not come out of the womb! |
| (0.38) | Joe 2:5 |
| They sound like 1 chariots rumbling 2 over mountain tops, like the crackling 3 of blazing fire consuming stubble, like the noise of 4 a mighty army 5 being drawn up for battle. 6 |
| (0.38) | Joe 2:9 |
| They rush into 1 the city; they scale 2 its walls. They climb up into the houses; they go in through the windows like a thief. |
| (0.38) | Joe 3:8 |
| I will sell your sons and daughters to 1 the people of Judah. 2 They will sell them to the Sabeans, 3 a nation far away. Indeed, the Lord has spoken! |
| (0.38) | Joe 3:9 |
| Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for a holy war! Call out the warriors! Let all these fighting men approach and attack! 1 |
| (0.38) | Amo 7:4 |
| The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw 1 the sovereign Lord summoning a shower of fire. 2 It consumed the great deep and devoured the fields. |
| (0.38) | Amo 7:11 |
| As a matter of fact, 1 Amos is saying this: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword and Israel will certainly be carried into exile 2 away from its land.’” |
| (0.38) | Amo 8:6 |
| We’re eager to trade silver for the poor, 1 a pair of sandals 2 for the needy! We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!” 3 |
| (0.38) | Amo 9:12 |
| As a result they 1 will conquer those left in Edom 2 and all the nations subject to my rule.” 3 The Lord, who is about to do this, is speaking! |
