Ephraim
Family: Israel · Role: firstborn son · First appears: Jeremiah 31
Life events
- Ephraim’s envy and Judah’s hostility cease.(Isaiah 11)
- With: Judah
- “The 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.”
- Ephraim repents after chastisement, and God promises mercy.(Jeremiah 31)
- With: God
- “I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God. Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.”
- The land is divided by lot among Israel’s tribes as their inheritance.(Ezekiel 48)
- With: Dan Asher Naphtali Manasseh Reuben Judah Benjamin Simeon Issachar Zebulun Gad
- “This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD.”
- Ephraim becomes joined to idols and is abandoned.(Hosea 4)
- “Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.”
- Ephraim commits whoredom, and Israel becomes defiled.(Hosea 5)
- With: Jacob
- “for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.”
- Israel and Ephraim fall in iniquity, and Judah falls with them.(Hosea 5)
- With: Jacob Judah
- “therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity: Judah also shall fall with them.”
- God withdraws from Israel and Ephraim after they fail to seek him.(Hosea 5)
- Ephraim appeals to the Assyrian and sends to king Jareb, but receives no healing.(Hosea 5)
- With: Assyrian king Jareb
- “then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.”
- God tears away Ephraim and Judah, leaving them without rescue.(Hosea 5)
- With: God Judah
- “I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.”
- Ephraim seeks aid from Egypt and Assyria like a senseless dove.(Hosea 7)
- With: Egypt Assyria
- “Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.”
- God announces that he will trap, bring down, and chastise Ephraim.(Hosea 7)
- With: God
- “When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them”
- Ephraim leaves the LORD’s land, returns to Egypt, and eats unclean things in Assyria.(Hosea 9 · 📍 Egypt; Assyria)
- With: God
- “They shall not dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.”
- God bereaves Ephraim’s children until no man remains.(Hosea 9)
- With: God
- “Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left”
- God drives Ephraim from his house and rejects its revolting princes.(Hosea 9 · 📍 Gilgal)
- With: God
- “for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.”
- God slays Ephraim’s beloved offspring.(Hosea 9)
- With: God
- “yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.”
- God casts Ephraim away, making them wanderers among the nations.(Hosea 9)
- With: God
- “My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.”
- God taught Ephraim to walk and healed him.(Hosea 11)
- With: God
- “I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.”
- God declared that he would not destroy Ephraim.(Hosea 11)
- With: God
- “I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim:”
- Ephraim died after offending in Baal.(Hosea 13)
- “but when he offended in Baal, he died.”
- Ephraim renounces idols and acknowledges receiving fruit from God.(Hosea 14)
- “Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.”
- God removes military weapons and establishes the King's peaceful dominion over the earth.(Zechariah 9 · 📍 Ephraim)
- With: God Jerusalem
- “And 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.”
- God makes Ephraim mighty and causes its people to rejoice.(Zechariah 10)
- With: God
- “And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine:”
Jeremiah 31
- parent: God “for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.”
- with God (God chastised Ephraim.) “Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Prophets. Made with Rho MD.