Hosea 3:4

Another Symbolic Marriage

³ I said to her, “You must live with me many days. Don’t be promiscuous or belong to any man, and I will act the same way toward you.” ⁴ For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or household idols. ⁵ Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king. They will come with awe to the Lord and to His goodness in the last days.

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Judges 17:5

This man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household idols, and installed one of his sons to be his priest.

Genesis 31:19

When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

Exodus 28:4

These are the garments that they must make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a specially woven tunic, a turban, and a sash. They are to make holy garments for your brother Aaron and his sons so that they may serve Me as priests.

Judges 8:27

Gideon made an ephod from all this and put it in Ophrah, his hometown. Then all Israel prostituted themselves with it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.

1 Samuel 23:9

When David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod.”

Daniel 9:27

He will make a firm covenant
with many for one week,
but in the middle of the week
he will put a stop to sacrifice and offering.
And the abomination of desolation
will be on a wing of the temple
until the decreed destruction
is poured out on the desolator.”

Daniel 12:11

From the time the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days.

Genesis 49:10

The scepter will not depart from Judah
or the staff from between his feet
until He whose right it is comes
and the obedience of the peoples belongs to Him.

Leviticus 8:7

He put the tunic on Aaron, wrapped the sash around him, clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him. He put the woven band of the ephod around him and fastened it to him.

Judges 18:17-24

Then the five men who had gone to scout out the land went in and took the carved image overlaid with silver, the ephod, and the household idols, while the priest was standing by the entrance of the gate with the 600 men armed with weapons of war.

1 Samuel 2:18

The boy Samuel served in the Lord’s presence and wore a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 14:3

Ahijah, who was wearing an ephod, was also there. He was the son of Ahitub, the brother of Ichabod son of Phinehas, son of Eli the Lord’s priest at Shiloh. But the troops did not know that Jonathan had left.

1 Samuel 21:9

The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here, wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want to take it for yourself, then take it, for there isn’t another one here.”

“There’s none like it!” David said. “Give it to me.”

1 Samuel 22:18

So the king said to Doeg, “Go and execute the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite went and executed the priests himself. On that day, he killed 85 men who wore linen ephods.

1 Samuel 23:6

Abiathar son of Ahimelech fled to David at Keilah, and he brought an ephod with him.

1 Samuel 30:7

David said to Abiathar the priest, son of Ahimelech, “Bring me the ephod.” So Abiathar brought it to him,

2 Samuel 6:14

David was dancing with all his might before the Lord wearing a linen ephod.

2 Kings 23:24

In addition, Josiah removed the mediums, the spiritists, household idols, images, and all the detestable things that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this in order to carry out the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the Lord’s temple.

2 Chronicles 15:2

So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Asa and all Judah and Benjamin, hear me. The Lord is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you abandon Him, He will abandon you.

Isaiah 19:19-20

On that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the center of the land of Egypt and a pillar to the Lord near her border.

Jeremiah 15:4-5

I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 20:32

“When you say, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the peoples of other countries, worshiping wood and stone,’ what you have in mind will never happen.

Ezekiel 21:21

For the king of Babylon stands at the split in the road, at the fork of the two roads, to practice divination: he shakes the arrows, consults the idols, and observes the liver.

Daniel 8:11-13

It made itself great, even up to the Prince of the host; it removed His daily sacrifice and overthrew the place of His sanctuary.

Daniel 11:31

His forces will rise up and desecrate the temple fortress. They will abolish the daily sacrifice and set up the abomination of desolation.

Hosea 2:11

I will put an end to all her celebrations:
her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—
all her festivals.

Hosea 10:1-3

Israel is a lush vine;
it yields fruit for itself.
The more his fruit increased,
the more he increased the altars.
The better his land produced,
the better they made the sacred pillars.

Hosea 13:11

I give you a king in My anger
and take away a king in My wrath.

Micah 5:11-14

I will remove the cities of your land
and tear down all your fortresses.

Zechariah 13:2

On that day”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.

Matthew 24:1-2

As Jesus left and was going out of the temple complex, His disciples came up and called His attention to the temple buildings.

Luke 21:24

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

John 19:15

But they shouted, “Take Him away! Take Him away! Crucify Him!”

Pilate said to them, “Should I crucify your king?”

“We have no king but Caesar!” the chief priests answered.

Acts 6:13-14

They also presented false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

Hebrews 10:26

For if we deliberately sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,