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## Hosea 5:1-3 in Context (Verses 1–6 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/hosea/5/1) Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment *is* toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
 
 [2 ](/kjv/hosea/5/2) And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I *have been* a rebuker of them all.**
 
 [3 ](/kjv/hosea/5/3) I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, *and* Israel is defiled.
 
 [4 ](/kjv/hosea/5/4) They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms *is* in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.**
 
 [5 ](/kjv/hosea/5/5) And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.
 
 [6 ](/kjv/hosea/5/6) They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find *him;* he hath withdrawn himself from them.
 
[Hosea 4](/kjv/hosea/4) [Hosea 6](/kjv/hosea/6)

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