Psalms 78-80
By all accounts, Ephraim was poised to be the lead tribe coming out of Egypt. Though the younger of Joseph's two sons, he was given the special blessing by Jacob before his passing... but his ascendancy never really materialized. In Psalm 78, Asaph is similarly struck by the fact that Ephraim followed after false gods. Perhaps the Egyptian bloodlines of his mother predisposed him to follow after other gods, because the tribe of Ephraim although numerous and strong consistently disappointed. As a result of Ephraim's sin, God rejected Ephraim and chose Judah to lead his nation.
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