We use the words Israel and Jacob and Ephraim almost interchangeably for the people who settled in the north of Palestine and who were alienated from the Temple at Jerusalem, and prone to fall into worship of false gods.
Friday of the Third Week in Lent 2026
One of the wisest things my sophomore Scripture teacher ever advised me was to read the OT, and to do so constantly. When we do this, we are confronted with the Bible authors’ use of different names to describe the same person or group of people. Hosea, in our
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