“I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.”
Hosea 11:3 (KJV) |
Hosea 11:3
From Hosea 11, in the Book of Hosea (Old Testament).
Read in Context
1
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
2
As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
3
I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
4
I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
5
He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.