Ah! sinner, when you cry to God you give him an opportunity to do that which he loves most to do, for he delights to forgive, to press his Ephraim to his bosom, to say of his prodigal son, “He was lost, but is found; he was dead, but is alive again.”
(Spurgeon's Sermons on Prayer by Charles H. Spurgeon (2007). Page 17-30., https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/the-ravens-cry/#flipbook/)
Saul searched for Kish's donkeys in the hill country of Ephraim, the land of Shalishah, the land of Shaalim, the land of Benjamin, and the land of Zuph, but found Samuel instead. (1 Samuel 9:3-14)
Abner the son of Ner made Ish-bosheth the son of Saul king over Gilead, the Ashurites, Jezreel, Ephraim, and Benjamin, and all Israel, in Mahanaim. (2 Samuel 2:9)
Absalom and David's battle took place in the forest of Ephraim and spread over all the country. Israel's loss under Absalom was great, twenty thousand men. The forest devoured more people that day than the sword. Absalom died when his hair caught in an oak, and Joab and his armor-bearers killed him. They buried Absalom in a great pit under a great heap of stones in the forest. (2 Samuel 18:6-18)
Jeremiah prophesied through the destruction of Babylon, the lost sheep of Israel would be restored to his pasture to feed on Carmel, Bashan, Ephraim, and Gilead. (Jeremiah 50:17-20)