Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.

- Genesis 48:5 NASB

THE COMPASSION OF GOD FOR EPHRAIM: Jacob Adobts Joseph's Two Sons as His Own

12 Then Joseph took them from his knees, and bowed with his face to the ground. 13 Joseph took them both, Ephraim with his right hand toward Israel’s left, and Manasseh with his left hand toward Israel’s right, and brought them close to him. 14 But Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, crossing his hands, although Manasseh was the firstborn.

- Genesis 48:12-14 NASB

THE COMPASSION OF GOD FOR EPHRAIM: The Blessing of Ephraim & Manasseh

17 When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on Ephraim’s head, it displeased him; and he grasped his father’s hand to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head. 18 Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this one is the firstborn. Place your right hand on his head.” 19 But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know; he also will become a people and he also will be great. However, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations.” 20 He blessed them that day, saying, “By you Israel will pronounce blessing, saying, ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh!’” Thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

- Genesis 48:17-20 NASB

THE COMPASSION OF GOD FOR EPHRAIM: The Blessing of Ephraim & Manasseh

I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandal has not worn out on your foot.

- Deuteronomy 29:5 NASB

THE COMPASSION OF GOD FOR EPHRAIM: God Lead Isarael Through the Wilderness

28 It came about when Israel became strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but they did not drive them out completely. 29 Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites who were living in Gezer; so the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.

- Judges 1:28-29 NASB

THE COMPASSION OF GOD FOR EPHRAIM: Ephraim Did Not Drive Out the Canaanites

“With weeping they will come,And by supplication I will lead them;I will make them walk by streams of waters,On a straight path in which they will not stumble;For I am a father to Israel,And Ephraim is My firstborn.”

- Jeremiah 31:9 NASB

THE COMPASSION OF GOD FOR EPHRAIM: Ephraim Called God's Firstborn

25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived there. And he went out from there and built Penuel. 26 Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to the house of David. 27 If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will return to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.” 28 So the king consulted, and made two golden calves, and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold your gods, O Israel, that brought you up from the land of Egypt.” 29 He set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.

- 1 Kings 12:25-29 NASB

THE COMPASSION OF GOD FOR EPHRAIM: Jeroboam Leads Israel into Idolatry

30 Now this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan. 31 And he made houses on high places, and made priests from among all the people who were not of the sons of Levi. 32 Jeroboam instituted a feast in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast which is in Judah, and he went up to the altar; thus he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves which he had made. And he stationed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made. 33 Then he went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised in his own heart; and he instituted a feast for the sons of Israel and went up to the altar to burn incense.

- 1 Kings 12:30-33 NASB

THE COMPASSION OF GOD FOR EPHRAIM: Jeroboam Leads Israel into Idolatry

Ephraim mixes himself with the nations;Ephraim has become a cake not turned. - Hosea 7:8

10 “Now as for you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus you have spoken, saying, “Surely our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we are rotting away in them; how then can we survive?”’ 11 Say to them, ‘As I live!’ declares the Lord God, ‘I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil ways! Why then will you die, O house of Israel?’

- Ezekiel 33:10-11 NASB

THE COMPASSION OF GOD FOR EPHRAIM

How can I give you up, O Ephraim?How can I surrender you, O Israel?...My heart is turned over within Me,All My compassions are kindled.

- Hosea 11:8 NASB

THE COMPASSION OF GOD FOR EPHRAIM

“Is Ephraim My dear son?Is he a delightful child?Indeed, as often as I have spoken against him,I certainly still remember him;Therefore My  heart yearns for him;I will surely have mercy on him,” declares the Lord.

- Jeremiah 31:20 NASB

THE COMPASSION OF GOD FOR EPHRAIM

The king was deeply moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And thus he said as he walked, “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

- 2 Samuel 18:33 NASB

THE COMPASSION OF GOD FOR EPHRAIM: David's Sorrow for Absalom

So he got up and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion for him, and ran and  embraced him and kissed him.

- Luke 15:20 NASB

THE COMPASSION OF GOD FOR EPHRAIM: The Father's Love for the Prodical Son

He prayed to the LORD and said, "Please LORD, was not this what I said while I was still in my own country? Therefore in order to forestall this I fled to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning calamity.”

- Jonah 4:2 NASB

THE COMPASSION OF GOD FOR EPHRAIM: God Forgives Nineveh

Do I have any pleasure in the death of the wicked,” declares the Lord God, “rather than that he should turn from his ways and live?

- Ezekiel 18:23 NASB

THE COMPASSION OF GOD FOR EPHRAIM

16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

- John 3:16-17 NASB

THE COMPASSION OF GOD FOR EPHRAIM: God Gave His Son for Our Sins

First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, 2 for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. 3 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

- 1 Timothy 2:1-4 NASB

THE COMPASSION OF GOD FOR EPHRAIM: God Gave His Son for Our Sins

The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

- 2 Peter 3:9 NASB

THE COMPASSION OF GOD FOR EPHRAIM: God Not Wishing for Any to Perish

14 For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; 15 and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf

- 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 NASB

THE COMPASSION OF GOD FOR EPHRAIM

31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? 37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

- Romans 8:31-32,37-39 NASB

THE COMPASSION OF GOD FOR EPHRAIM

24 He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed. 25 For you were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls. - 1 Peter 2: 24-25

24 He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed. 25 For you were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls. - 1 Peter 2: 24-25