Cross references

Hosea 9:3

They will not remain

in the land of the LORD;

Ephraim

will return to Egypt

and eat unclean food in Assyria.

Hosea 9:3 BSB
  1. a That is, the northern kingdom of Israel; similarly in verses 8, 11, 13, and 16

Hosea 9:3 has 21 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ezekiel 4:13 (10 votes) and Hosea 8:13 (8 votes). 28 other verses point back to it. It links with 16 other books, from Leviticus 11 to Acts 11.

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Which verses does Hosea 9:3 point to?

The 20 strongest of 21, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Ezekiel 4:1310 votes

    Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.”

  2. Hosea 8:138 votes

    Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.

  3. The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.

  4. I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land and made My inheritance detestable.

  5. Hosea 7:114 votes

    So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove—calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.

  6. I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.

  7. Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so also it will please Him to annihilate you and destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

  8. But just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the LORD will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land He has given you.

  9. then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.

  10. In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.

  11. Daniel 1:83 votes
  12. Hosea 9:63 votes

    For even if they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them and Memphis will bury them. Their precious silver will be taken over by thistles, and thorns will overrun their tents.

  13. Hosea 11:52 votes
  14. Micah 2:102 votes

Which verses point to Hosea 9:3?

The 10 strongest of 28.