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days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or household gods. <a href="/nlt/hosea/3.htm">New Living Translation</a> This shows that Israel will go a long time without a king or prince, and without sacrifices, sacred pillars, priests, or even idols! <a href="/esv/hosea/3.htm">English Standard Version</a> For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or household gods. <a href="/bsb/hosea/3.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol. <a href="/kjv/hosea/3.htm">King James Bible</a> For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: <a href="/nkjv/hosea/3.htm">New King James Version</a> For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without ephod or teraphim. <a href="/nasb_/hosea/3.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> For the sons of Israel will live for many days without a king or leader, without sacrifice or memorial stone, and without ephod or household idols. <a href="/nasb/hosea/3.htm">NASB 1995</a> For the sons of Israel will remain for many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar and without ephod or household idols. <a href="/nasb77/hosea/3.htm">NASB 1977 </a> For the sons of Israel will remain for many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or household idols. <a href="/lsb/hosea/3.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> For the sons of Israel will remain for many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or household idols. <a href="/amp/hosea/3.htm">Amplified Bible</a> For the sons of Israel will remain for many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or [idolatrous] pillar, and without ephod or teraphim (household idols). <a href="/csb/hosea/3.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or household idols. <a href="/hcsb/hosea/3.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or household idols. <a href="/asv/hosea/3.htm">American Standard Version</a> For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without pillar, and without ephod or teraphim: <a href="/cev/hosea/3.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> It will also be a long time before Israel has a king or before sacrifices are offered at the temple or before there is any way to get guidance from God. <a href="/erv/hosea/3.htm">English Revised Version</a> For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without pillar, and without ephod or teraphim. <a href="/gwt/hosea/3.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> In the same way, the Israelites will wait a long time without kings or officials, without sacrifices or sacred stones, and without ephods or family idols. <a href="/gnt/hosea/3.htm">Good News Translation</a> In just this way the people of Israel will have to live for a long time without kings or leaders, without sacrifices or sacred stone pillars, without idols or images to use for divination. <a href="/isv/hosea/3.htm">International Standard Version</a> Likewise, the people of Israel will dwell a long time without a king, without a prince, without sacrifice, without sacred pillars, and with neither ephod nor teraphim. <a href="/msb/hosea/3.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol. <a href="/net/hosea/3.htm">NET Bible</a> For the Israelites must live many days without a king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred fertility pillar, without ephod or idols. <a href="/nheb/hosea/3.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols. <a href="/wbt/hosea/3.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: <a href="/web/hosea/3.htm">World English Bible</a> For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, without prince, without sacrifice, without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/hosea/3.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> For the sons of Israel remain without a king for many days, and there is no prince, and there is no sacrifice, and there is no standing pillar, and there is no ephod and teraphim. <a href="/ylt/hosea/3.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> For many days remain do the sons of Israel without a king, and there is no prince, and there is no sacrifice, and there is no standing pillar, and there is no ephod and teraphim. <a href="/slt/hosea/3.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> For many days shall the sons of Israel dwell, not a king and not a chief and not a sacrifice and not a pillar and it one ephod and teraphim.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/hosea/3.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> For the children of Israel shall sit many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without altar, and without ephod, and without theraphim. <a href="/cpdv/hosea/3.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> For the sons of Israel will sit for many days without a king, and without a leader, and without sacrifice, and without altar, and without priestly vestments, and without religious symbols. <a href="/nabre/hosea/3.htm">New American Bible</a> For the Israelites will remain many days without king or prince, Without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without ephod or household gods. <a href="/nrsvce/hosea/3.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> For the Israelites shall remain many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or teraphim.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/hosea/3.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without a king and without a ruler and without a sacrifice and without an altar, and without the one who wears an ephod and burns incense. <a href="/hpbt/hosea/3.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> Because for many days the children of Israel will dwell without a King and without a Ruler and without a sacrifice and without an altar and without one wearing an ephod and setting incense<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/hosea/3.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> For the children of Israel shall sit solitary many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without pillar, and without ephod or teraphim; <a href="/sep/hosea/3.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an altar, and without a priesthood, and without manifestations. <a href="/parallel/hosea/3-4.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xpPG1oLnpGk?start=437" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/hosea/3.htm">Hosea Redeems His Wife</a> …3Then I said to her, “You must live with me for many days; you must not be promiscuous or belong to another, and I will do the same for you.” 4<a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">For</a> <a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: bə·nê (N-mpc) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.).">the Israelites</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3427.htm" title="3427: yê·šə·ḇū (V-Qal-Imperf-3mp) -- A primitive root; properly, to sit down; by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry.">must live</a> <a href="/hebrew/7227.htm" title="7227: rab·bîm (Adj-mp) -- Much, many, great. By contracted from rabab; abundant.">many</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: yā·mîm (N-mp) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">days</a> <a href="/hebrew/369.htm" title="369: ’ên (Adv) -- As if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist; a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle.">without</a> <a href="/hebrew/4428.htm" title="4428: me·leḵ (N-ms) -- King. From malak; a king.">king</a> <a href="/hebrew/8269.htm" title="8269: śār (N-ms) -- Chieftain, chief, ruler, official, captain, prince. From sarar; a head person.">or prince,</a> <a href="/hebrew/369.htm" title="369: wə·’ên (Conj-w:: Adv) -- As if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist; a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle.">without</a> <a href="/hebrew/2077.htm" title="2077: ze·ḇaḥ (N-ms) -- A sacrifice. From zabach; properly, a slaughter, i.e. The flesh of an animal; by implication, a sacrifice.">sacrifice</a> <a href="/hebrew/369.htm" title="369: wə·’ên (Conj-w:: Adv) -- As if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist; a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle.">or</a> <a href="/hebrew/4676.htm" title="4676: maṣ·ṣê·ḇāh (N-fs) -- A pillar, stump. Feminine participle of natsab; something stationed, i.e. A column or; by analogy, an idol.">sacred pillar,</a> <a href="/hebrew/369.htm" title="369: wə·’ên (Conj-w:: Adv) -- As if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist; a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle."></a> <a href="/hebrew/369.htm" title="369: wə·’ên (Conj-w:: Adv) -- As if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist; a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle.">and without</a> <a href="/hebrew/646.htm" title="646: ’ê·p̄ō·wḏ (N-ms) -- Rarely oephod; probably of foreign derivation; a girdle; specifically the ephod or high-priest's shoulder- piece; also generally, an image.">ephod</a> <a href="/hebrew/8655.htm" title="8655: ū·ṯə·rā·p̄îm (Conj-w:: N-mp) -- (a kind of idol) perhaps household idol. Plural from rapha'; a healer; Teraphim a family idol.">or idol.</a> 5Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/2_kings/17-6.htm">2 Kings 17:6-23</a> 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. / All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods / and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel. ... <a href="/2_chronicles/15-3.htm">2 Chronicles 15:3</a> For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a priest to instruct them, and without the law. <a href="/jeremiah/3-8.htm">Jeremiah 3:8</a> She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well. <a href="/ezekiel/37-21.htm">Ezekiel 37:21-23</a> you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take the Israelites out of the nations to which they have gone, and I will gather them from all around and bring them into their own land. / I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and one king will rule over all of them. Then they will no longer be two nations and will never again be divided into two kingdoms. / They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, and I will cleanse them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God. <a href="/amos/8-11.htm">Amos 8:11</a> Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD. <a href="/isaiah/3-4.htm">Isaiah 3:4-7</a> “I will make mere lads their leaders, and children will rule over them.” / The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the young will rise up against the old, and the base against the honorable. / A man will seize his brother within his father’s house: “You have a cloak—you be our leader! Take charge of this heap of rubble.” ... <a href="/lamentations/5-19.htm">Lamentations 5:19-22</a> You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation. / Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long? / Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old, ... <a href="/micah/3-6.htm">Micah 3:6-7</a> Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them. / Then the seers will be ashamed and the diviners will be disgraced. They will all cover their mouths because there is no answer from God.” <a href="/zechariah/10-2.htm">Zechariah 10:2</a> For idols speak deceit and diviners see illusions; they tell false dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander like sheep, oppressed for lack of a shepherd. <a href="/1_samuel/3-1.htm">1 Samuel 3:1</a> And the boy Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. Now in those days the word of the LORD was rare, and visions were scarce. <a href="/matthew/24-2.htm">Matthew 24:2</a> “Do you see all these things?” He replied. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.” <a href="/luke/21-24.htm">Luke 21:24</a> They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. <a href="/john/4-21.htm">John 4:21-24</a> “Believe Me, woman,” Jesus replied, “a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. / You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. / But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him. ... <a href="/romans/11-25.htm">Romans 11:25-27</a> I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. / And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob. / And this is My covenant with them when I take away their sins.” <a href="/1_corinthians/13-8.htm">1 Corinthians 13:8-10</a> Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed. / For we know in part and we prophesy in part, / but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:without a king.<a href="/hosea/10-3.htm">Hosea 10:3</a> For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?<a href="/genesis/49-10.htm">Genesis 49:10</a> The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.<a href="/jeremiah/15-4.htm">Jeremiah 15:4,5</a> And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem… without a sacrifice.<a href="/2_chronicles/15-2.htm">2 Chronicles 15:2</a> And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.<a href="/daniel/8-11.htm">Daniel 8:11-13</a> Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down… <a href="/daniel/9-27.htm">Daniel 9:27</a> And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.an image.<a href="/isaiah/19-19.htm">Isaiah 19:19,20</a> In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD… ephod.<a href="/exodus/28-4.htm">Exodus 28:4</a> And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.<a href="/leviticus/8-7.htm">Leviticus 8:7</a> And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith.<a href="/judges/8-27.htm">Judges 8:27</a> And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.without teraphim.<a href="/genesis/31-19.htm">Genesis 31:19</a> And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.<a href="/judges/17-5.htm">Judges 17:5</a> And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.<a href="/judges/18-17.htm">Judges 18:17-24</a> And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war… <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/hosea/3-3.htm">Abide</a> <a href="/hosea/3-1.htm">Children</a> <a href="/hosea/3-3.htm">Dwell</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/15-27.htm">Ephod</a> <a href="/ezekiel/21-21.htm">Household</a> <a href="/ezekiel/44-12.htm">Idols</a> <a href="/daniel/3-18.htm">Image</a> <a href="/hosea/3-1.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/hosea/1-10.htm">Israelites</a> <a href="/daniel/6-21.htm">Live</a> <a href="/daniel/5-17.htm">Offerings</a> <a href="/ezekiel/43-8.htm">Pillar</a> <a href="/ezekiel/42-6.htm">Pillars</a> <a href="/daniel/12-1.htm">Prince</a> <a href="/daniel/11-43.htm">Ruler</a> <a href="/ezekiel/48-20.htm">Sacred</a> <a href="/daniel/12-11.htm">Sacrifice</a> <a href="/hosea/3-3.htm">Sit</a> <a href="/hosea/3-3.htm">Solitary</a> <a href="/daniel/12-5.htm">Standing</a> <a href="/daniel/2-34.htm">Statue</a> <a href="/daniel/11-38.htm">Stone</a> <a href="/daniel/11-38.htm">Stones</a> <a href="/ezekiel/21-21.htm">Teraphim</a> <a href="/hosea/3-3.htm">Time</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/hosea/9-3.htm">Abide</a> <a href="/hosea/3-5.htm">Children</a> <a href="/hosea/4-3.htm">Dwell</a> <a href="/exodus/25-7.htm">Ephod</a> <a href="/micah/7-6.htm">Household</a> <a href="/hosea/4-17.htm">Idols</a> <a href="/hosea/10-6.htm">Image</a> <a href="/hosea/3-5.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/hosea/3-5.htm">Israelites</a> <a href="/hosea/4-1.htm">Live</a> <a href="/hosea/4-19.htm">Offerings</a> <a href="/1_timothy/3-15.htm">Pillar</a> <a href="/hosea/10-1.htm">Pillars</a> <a href="/hosea/12-3.htm">Prince</a> <a href="/hosea/7-16.htm">Ruler</a> <a href="/hosea/10-1.htm">Sacred</a> <a href="/hosea/4-13.htm">Sacrifice</a> <a href="/hosea/14-7.htm">Sit</a> <a href="/matthew/14-13.htm">Solitary</a> <a href="/hosea/8-7.htm">Standing</a> <a href="/revelation/13-14.htm">Statue</a> <a href="/hosea/12-11.htm">Stone</a> <a href="/hosea/5-10.htm">Stones</a> <a href="/zechariah/10-2.htm">Teraphim</a> <a href="/hosea/7-4.htm">Time</a><div class="vheading2">Hosea 3</div>1. <a href="/hosea/3-1.htm">The Lord's intended future kindness to Israel, not withstanding their wickedness, </a> 2. <a href="/hosea/3-2.htm">illustrated by the emblem of Hosea's conduct toward his adulterous wife.</a> 4. <a href="/hosea/3-4.htm">The desolation of Israel before their restoration.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The term "Israelites" is deeply rooted in the covenantal relationship established between God and the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Historically, the Israelites were a people who experienced both the blessings of obedience and the consequences of disobedience. In this context, they are being reminded of their identity and the impending period of separation from their traditional religious and political structures.must live many days The phrase "must live many days" indicates a prolonged period of time. In the Hebrew context, this suggests a divinely ordained duration, emphasizing God's sovereignty over time and history. This period is not just a temporary setback but a significant epoch in Israel's history, where they are to endure the absence of their usual societal and religious norms. It is a time of waiting and reflection, meant to bring about repentance and renewal.without king or prince This highlights the absence of political leadership and governance. In ancient Israel, the king and prince were not only political figures but also seen as representatives of God's authority on earth. The lack of a king or prince signifies a loss of national identity and stability. Historically, this can be linked to the Assyrian and Babylonian exiles, where Israel and Judah were left without their monarchs, symbolizing a period of judgment and divine discipline.without sacrifice or sacred pillar Sacrifices were central to Israelite worship, serving as a means of atonement and communion with God. The "sacred pillar" refers to the altars or standing stones used in worship, often associated with pagan practices that had infiltrated Israelite religion. The absence of these elements indicates a disruption in their religious practices, a call to purify their worship and return to the true worship of Yahweh. This period of absence is a divine intervention to cleanse and redirect the hearts of the people back to God.without ephod or idol The "ephod" was a priestly garment used in seeking divine guidance, while "idol" refers to the false gods that Israel often turned to in times of spiritual adultery. The absence of these items signifies a stripping away of both legitimate and illegitimate means of seeking divine favor. It is a call to abandon idolatry and to seek God with a pure heart. Historically, this reflects the period of exile when the Israelites were removed from their land and the temple, forcing them to confront their reliance on physical symbols rather than a genuine relationship with God.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/hosea/3.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(4) The prophet suddenly passes from his personal history to that of Israel, which it symbolised.Without a king . . .--The isolation of Gomer's position pre-figured that of Israel in the exile. Her bitter experience was a parable of Israel's utter deprivation of all civil and religious privilege. There was to be no king, or prince, or sacred ritual of any kind. Observe that the terms of both cultus are here intermingled, suggesting the idolatrous conceptions of the pure ancient practice which Jeroboam's calf-worship was only too likely to introduce. By "image" we are to understand upright stones, representing Baal or the sun-god. (Comp. <a href="/hosea/10-1.htm" title="Israel is an empty vine, he brings forth fruit to himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he has increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.">Hosea 10:1</a> and <a href="/exodus/24-4.htm" title="And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.">Exodus 24:4</a>.) On "ephod," see <a href="/judges/17-5.htm" title="And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.">Judges 17:5</a>; <a href="/judges/18-14.htm" title="Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said to their brothers, Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what you have to do.">Judges 18:14</a>; <a href="/context/judges/18-17.htm" title="And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.">Judges 18:17-20</a>; on "teraphim," <a href="/context/genesis/31-19.htm" title="And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.">Genesis 31:19-35</a>; <a href="/context/1_samuel/19-13.htm" title="And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.">1Samuel 19:13-16</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/21-21.htm" title="For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.">Ezekiel 21:21</a>; <a href="/zechariah/10-2.htm" title="For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.">Zechariah 10:2</a>. In the last two passages the word is translated "idols," "images," their use as instruments of divination being condemned. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/hosea/3.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 4. - For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and teraphim. For a long series of years they were thus doomed to be without civil polity, or ecclesiastical privilege, or prophetic intimations. More particularly they were to remain without royal rule, or princely power, or priestly function, or prophetic instruction. As the prophet's wife was neither to be, strictly speaking, her husband's nor yet belong to another man; so Israel, as represented by her, was destined to be deprived of independent self-government and princely sovereignty; of Divine service, whether allowed as by sacrifice - the central part of Hebrew worship - or disallowed as by statue; of oracular responses, whether lawful as by the ephod or unlawful as by teraphim. There was thus an entire breaking up of Church and state as they had long existed; of all civil and ecclesiastical relations and privileges as they had been long enjoyed. Without a king of their own nationality to sit upon the throne, or a prince of their own race as heir apparent to the kingdom, or princes as the great officers of state; without offering by sacrifice to Jehovah, or statue by way of memorial to Baal; without means of ascertaining the will of Heaven in relation to the future by the Urim and Thummim of the high-priestly ephod, only the more than questionable means of soothsaying by the teraphim; - the children of Israel were to be left. And what attaches special importance to this remarkable passage is the undeniable tact that these predictions were uttered, not only before the dissolution of the monarchy and the cessation of sacrifices, but at a time when no human sagacity could foresee and no human power foretell the future abstention of the Hebrew race from idol-worship so long practiced, and from heathenish divination resorted to from such an early period of their history. Rashi, in his comment, has the following: "I said to her, Many days shalt thou abide for me; thou shalt not go a-whoring after other gods; for if thou shalt play the harlot, thy sons shall remain many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice in the sanctuary in Judah, and without a statue of Baal in Samaria of the kings of Israel, and without an ephod with Urim and Thummim which declared to them secrets, and without teraphim; they are images that are made with the observation of one hour composed for the purpose, and which speak of themselves and declare secrets; and so Jonathan has translated, "Neither will there be an ephod nor one to give a response.'" Similarly Aben Ezra: "Without king, nor is there any objection from the Chasmoneans, for they were not of the children of Judah... without sacrifice to Jehovah nor statue to Baal, without ephod to Jehovah and without teraphim to the worshippers of idols, which Laban called his gods." It is a matter of much consequence that some of the ablest of the Jewish expositors realize these predictions as applicable to their own case and the existing circumstances of their nation. Thus Kimchi, in commenting on this verse, says, "These are the days of the exile in which we are this day, and we have neither king nor prince of Israel, for we are in the power of the Gentiles, and in the power of their kings and princes... no sacrifice to God and no statue for worshippers of idols... and no ephod which shall declare future things by Urim and Thummim, and no teraphim for idolaters which declare the future according to the notion of those who believe in them; and thus we are this day in this exile, all the children of Israel;" he then cites the Targum of Jonathan in confirmation of his sentiments. For the ephod, comp. <a href="/exodus/28-6.htm">Exodus 28:6-14</a>, from which we learn that it was "a short cloak, covering shoulders and breast, wrought with colors and gold, formed of two halves connected by two shoulder-pieces, on each of which was an onyx engraved with six names of tribes, and held together round the waist by a girdle of the same material;" it was part of the high priest's attire. The teraphim - from the Arabic tarifa, to live comfortably, and turfator, a comfortable life, were the household gods and domestic oracles, like the Roman penates, and deriving the name from being thought the givers and guardians of a comfortable life, חֶרֶפ. They were images in human form and stature, either graven of wood or stone (pesel), or molten out of precious metal (mas-sekhah). The first mention of them is in <a href="/genesis/31-19.htm">Genesis 31:19</a>, and the name occurs fifteen times in the Old Testament. They appear to have been of Syrian or Chaldean origin. Aben Ezra says of them, "What appears to me most probable is that they had a human form and were made for the purpose of receiving supernal power, nor can I explain it further." The two principal species of offerings were the זבח, or bloody sacrifice, and the מנחה, or unbloody oblation. The former comprehended those entirely burnt on the altar, עֹלָח rad. עלה, to ascend, from going up entirely in the altar-smoke; and חלב, or those of which only the fat was burnt. According to the object of the offerer, they were chattah, sin offering, pointing to expiation or pardon for something done demanding punishment; or asham, trespass offering, implying satisfaction and acceptance, or something undone demanding amends; and shelamim, peace offerings. <a href="/commentaries/hosea/3-4.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>For כִּ֣י ׀ (kî) Conjunction <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> A relative conjunction the Israelites בְּנֵ֣י (bə·nê) Noun - masculine plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1121.htm">Strong's 1121: </a> A son must live יֵֽשְׁבוּ֙ (yê·šə·ḇū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3427.htm">Strong's 3427: </a> To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry many רַבִּ֗ים (rab·bîm) Adjective - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7227.htm">Strong's 7227: </a> Much, many, great days יָמִ֣ים (yā·mîm) Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> A day without אֵ֥ין (’ên) Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_369.htm">Strong's 369: </a> A non-entity, a negative particle king מֶ֙לֶךְ֙ (me·leḵ) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4428.htm">Strong's 4428: </a> A king or prince, שָׂ֔ר (śār) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8269.htm">Strong's 8269: </a> Chieftain, chief, ruler, official, captain, prince without וְאֵ֣ין (wə·’ên) Conjunctive waw | Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_369.htm">Strong's 369: </a> A non-entity, a negative particle sacrifice זֶ֖בַח (ze·ḇaḥ) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2077.htm">Strong's 2077: </a> A slaughter, the flesh of an animal, a sacrifice or וְאֵ֣ין (wə·’ên) Conjunctive waw | Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_369.htm">Strong's 369: </a> A non-entity, a negative particle sacred pillar, מַצֵּבָ֑ה (maṣ·ṣê·ḇāh) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4676.htm">Strong's 4676: </a> Something stationed, a column, an idol and without וְאֵ֥ין (wə·’ên) Conjunctive waw | Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_369.htm">Strong's 369: </a> A non-entity, a negative particle ephod אֵפ֖וֹד (’ê·p̄ō·wḏ) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_646.htm">Strong's 646: </a> A girdle, the ephod, highpriest's shoulder-piece, an image or idol. וּתְרָפִֽים׃ (ū·ṯə·rā·p̄îm) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8655.htm">Strong's 8655: </a> (a kind of idol) perhaps household idol <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/hosea/3-4.htm">Hosea 3:4 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/hosea/3-4.htm">Hosea 3:4 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/hosea/3-4.htm">Hosea 3:4 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/hosea/3-4.htm">Hosea 3:4 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/hosea/3-4.htm">Hosea 3:4 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/hosea/3-4.htm">Hosea 3:4 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/hosea/3-4.htm">Hosea 3:4 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/hosea/3-4.htm">Hosea 3:4 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/hosea/3-4.htm">Hosea 3:4 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/hosea/3-4.htm">Hosea 3:4 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/hosea/3-4.htm">OT Prophets: Hosea 3:4 For the children of Israel shall abide (Ho Hs Hos.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/hosea/3-3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Hosea 3:3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Hosea 3:3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/hosea/3-5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Hosea 3:5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Hosea 3:5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>