Ephraimite

He pushed him away.

Hosea 9.3 prophesied that the Ephraimites would go amongst the Gentiles and eat unclean things.

It wasn't a blessing, honey.

It was a curse.

Jews are not saved by works.

Christians are not saved by works.

Ephraimites, many of the Ephraimites are Christians today.

We are saved by faith.

Now, there was a certain man of Ramatayim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim.

His name was Elkanah, son of Yeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zoph, and Ephraimite.

He had two wives.

The name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah.

This shows up then in Jewish history forever after because Lehi, 100 years later, has Manassite heritage.

Lehi's friend Ishmael had Ephraimite heritage.

Of course, you know there's Judah there.

Nephi says that he's a Jew, that his family are Jews.

Right, and then the third one comes, the third adversary, and this one comes from inside.

[clears throat] Yeravam ben Nevat, Jeroboam, a young Ephraimite, gibor hayil, a man of valor who is both capable and hardworking.

And the text tells us something that is just strikingly ironic.

King Solomon saw this young man, got things done, he caught his eye, and King Solomon promoted him.

Sixth month, Ira, son of Ekesh from Tekoa.

Seventh month, Helez, an Ephraimite from Pelon.

Eighth month, Sibekai, from Husha.

He was a member of the clan of Zerah, a part of the tribe of Judah.

A reading from the 11th chapter of 1 Kings.

Jeroboam, son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zerida, a servant of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, rebelled against the king.

The following was the reason he rebelled against the king.

Solomon built the millow and closed up the gap in the wall of the city of his father David.

It was the ancient Israelite cultic center where the Ark was kept before the fateful battle.

Today, it's an abandoned archaeological site on a low hill in the Ephraimite highlands, surrounded by terraced olive groves.

Sounds peaceful, but...

But it's not.

In one day, Pekah, son of Ramaliah, killed 120,000 warriors in Judah because they had abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors.

Zichri, an Ephraimite warrior, killed the king's son, Masaiah, Azrikam, the supervisor of the palace, and Elkanah, the king's second-in-command.

The Israelites seized from their brothers 200,000 wives, sons, and daughters, They also carried off a huge amount of plunder back to Samaria.

Oded, a prophet of the Lord, was there.

Yet are you not also guilty before the Lord your God? Now listen to me.

Send back those you have seized from your brothers, for the Lord is very angry at you.

Some of the Ephraimite family leaders, Azariah, son of Jehochanan, Berechiah, son of Meshilamoth, Jechaziah, son of Shalom, and Amasa, son of Halai, confronted those returning from the battle.

They said to them, Don't bring those captives here.