Hosea 12:4-9
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He strove with the angel and prevailed;
he wept and sought his favor.
e He met God at Bethel,
and there God spoke with us -
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the Lord, the God of hosts,
f the Lord is his memorial name:
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"So you, g by the help of your God, return,
h hold fast to love and justice,
and wait continually for your God."
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A merchant, in whose hands are i false balances,
he loves j to oppress.
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Ephraim has said, "Ah, but k I am rich;
I have found wealth for myself;
in all my labors l they cannot find in me iniquity or sin."
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m I am the Lord your God
from the land of Egypt;
I will again make you n dwell in tents,
as in the days of the appointed feast.
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Cross References
Genesis 28:12
And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!
Genesis 28:19
He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
Genesis 35:9 - 10
God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.
Genesis 35:15
So Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.
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Exodus 3:15
God also said to Moses, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.
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Hosea 14:1 - 2
Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
Joel 2:12 - 13
Yet even now," declares the Lord, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.
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Micah 6:8
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
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Amos 8:5
Saying, "When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances.
Micah 6:11
Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?
Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.
Proverbs 20:23
Unequal weights are an abomination to the Lord, and false scales are not good.
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Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
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Zechariah 11:5
Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the Lord, I have become rich,' and their own shepherds have no pity on them.
Revelation 3:17
For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.
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Deuteronomy 29:19
One who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, 'I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.' This will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike.
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Hosea 13:4
But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.
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Leviticus 23:39 - 43
On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of the Lord seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
Nehemiah 8:14 - 18
And they found it written in the Law that the Lord had commanded by Moses that the people of Israel should dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month.
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