Ephraim

-1 . Second son of Joseph Genesis 41:52 Adopted by Jacob Genesis 48:5 .Blessed before Manasseh;

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prophecies concerning Genesis 48:14-20 .Descendants of Numbers 26:35-37; 1 Chronicles 7:20-27

.Mourned for his sons 1 Chronicles 7:21, 22

-2. A tribe of Israel .Prophecy concerning Genesis 49:25, 26; Isaiah 7; 9:18-21; 11:13; 28:1; Jeremiah 31;

Hosea 5:14; Zechariah 9:10; 10:7 .Numbered at Mount Sinai and in plains of Moab Numbers 1:33; 26:37

.Position in camp and march Numbers 2:18, 24; 10:22 .Blessed by Moses Deuteronomy 33:13-17 .Territory

allotted to, after the conquest of Canaan 17:9, Joshua 16:5-9; 10, 15-18; 1 Chronicles 7:28, 29 .Failed to

expel the Canaanites Joshua 16: 10 .Captured Beth-el in battle Judges 1 :22-25 .Rebuked Gideon for not

summoning them to join the war against the Midianites Judges 8:1 .Joined Gideon against the Midianites

Judges 7:24, 25 .Their jealousy of Jephthah Judges 12:1 .Defeated by him Judges 12:4-6 .Received Ish-

bosheth as king 2 Samuel 2:9 .Jeroboam set up a golden calf in Beth-el 1 Kings 12:29 .Revolted from house

of David 1 Kings 12:25; 2 Chronicles 10:16 .Some of tribe joined Judah under Asa 2 Chronicles 15:9

.Chastised Ahaz and Judah 2 Chronicles 28:7 .Joined Hezekiah in reinstituting the Passover 2 Chronicles

30:18 .Joined in the destruction of idolatrous forms in Jerusalem 2 Chronicles 31:1. Submitted to the

scepter of Josiah 2 Chronicles 34:1-6 .Envied by other tribes Isaiah 11:13; Jeremiah 7:15; Ezekiel 37:16,

19; Hosea 13:1 .Worshiped Baal Hosea 13:1 . Sin of , remembered by God Hosea 13:12 .Reallotment of

territory, to, by Ezekiel Ezekiel 48:5 Name of, applied to the ten tribes 2 Chronicles 17:2; 25:6, 7; Isaiah

7:8,9; 11:12, 13; 17:3; Jeremiah 31:18, 20; Hosea 4:17; 5:3, 5; 6:4, 10; 8:11; 12:14 .Tribe of, called

JOSEPH Revelation 7:8

-3. Mount of A range of low mountains Joshua 17:15-18 Joshua has his inheritance in Judges 2:9

.Residence of Micah Judges 17:8 A place of hiding for Israelites 1 Samuel 14:22 .Sheba resides in 2

Samuel 20:21 Noted for rich pastures Jeremiah 50:19 .Prophecy concerning its conversion Jeremiah 31:6

-4. A forest east of the Jordan River Absalom killed in 2 Samuel 18:6-17

-5. A gate of Jerusalem 2 Kings 14:13; 2 Chronicles 25:23; Nehemiah 8:16; 12:39

-6. A city in the territory of Ephraim 2 Chronicles 13:19 .Jesus escapes to, from the persecution of Caiaphas

John 11:54