Hosea 4:5

Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.

Cross-reference

Hosea 9:8 Parallel

In Hosea 9:8, the prophet faces hostility and is a snare — reinforcing the prophet's fate in Hosea 4:5.

Hosea 9:7 Parallel

In Hosea 9:7, the prophet is deemed a fool in days of punishment — directly parallel to the prophet's stumbling in Hosea 4:5.

Hosea 2:2 Allusion

In Hosea 2:2, the same 'mother' metaphor is used as God commands rebuke of the unfaithful mother, tying directly to the destruction of the mother here.

Hosea 5:5 Parallel

Hosea 5:5 repeats the same 'stumble' language — Israel and Judah both stumble in their iniquity, reinforcing 4:5's prophecy.

Hosea 2:5 Allusion

Hosea 2:5 identifies the 'mother' as unfaithful Israel who pursued lovers — the same mother God vows to destroy in 4:5.

In Ezekiel 14:8-10, false prophets and their followers share punishment, echoing the prophet stumbling with the people in Hosea.

In Zechariah 13:2, God promises to remove both prophets and impurity from the land—directly paralleling the judgment on prophets and the nation here.

In Micah 3:5-7, false prophets are condemned to darkness and shame, similar to the night-time stumbling and destruction in Hosea.

In Isaiah 9:13-17, God cuts off false prophets who mislead — a parallel judgment to the stumbling prophet in Hosea 4:5.

In Ezekiel 13:9-16, false prophets who mislead are judged and their false security destroyed — parallels the prophet's stumbling in Hosea.

In Jeremiah 15:8, God brings a destroyer against the mothers, similar to the destruction of 'your mother' in Hosea — judgment on the nation.

In Jeremiah 14:16, the people who followed false prophets also face destruction, mirroring Hosea's 'destroy your mother' — collective judgment.

In Jeremiah 14:15, God declares false prophets will be consumed by sword and famine — direct judgment parallel to the prophet's destruction in Hosea.

In Jeremiah 8:10-12, the indictment of false prophets and their stumbling among the fallen repeats the same pattern.

In Jeremiah 6:12-15, the same theme of false prophets dealing falsely and stumbling with the people is explicitly echoed.

Isaiah 50:1 Parallel

In Isaiah 50:1, God asks about the mother's certificate of divorce, reinforcing the theme of Israel as the mother being sent away for iniquity.

Isaiah 9:14 Parallel

In Isaiah 9:14, God cuts off head and tail (leaders) from Israel—a parallel judgment on the nation's leaders as here.

In Ezekiel 16:44, the proverb 'like mother, like daughter' is applied to Jerusalem, echoing the mother-daughter imagery but with a different context.

In Zechariah 11:8, God removes three shepherds in one month—a parallel act of judging unfaithful leaders, echoing the destruction of the mother (nation) here.