Hosea 10:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now, truly, they will say, We have no king, we have no fear of the Lord; and the king, what is he able to do for us?

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Referenced Verses

  • Hos 10:15 : 15 So will Beth-el do to you because of your evil-doing; at dawn will the king of Israel be cut off completely.
  • Hos 13:11 : 11 I have given you a king, because I was angry, and have taken him away in my wrath.
  • Hos 10:7 : 7 As for Samaria, her king is cut off, like mist on the water.
  • Mic 4:9 : 9 Now why are you crying so loudly? is there no king in you? has destruction come on your wise helper? so that pains have taken you like the pains of a woman in childbirth:
  • John 19:15 : 15 Then they gave a loud cry, Away with him! away with him! to the cross! Pilate said to them, Am I to put your King to death on the cross? The chief priests said in answer, We have no king but Caesar.
  • Hos 11:5 : 5 He will go back to the land of Egypt and the Assyrian will be his king, because they would not come back to me.
  • Gen 49:10 : 10 The rod of authority will not be taken from Judah, and he will not be without a law-giver, till he comes who has the right to it, and the peoples will put themselves under his rule.
  • Hos 3:4 : 4 For the children of Israel will for a long time be without king and without ruler, without offerings and without pillars, and without ephod or images.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Hos 13:10
    76%

    10 Where is your king, that he may be your saviour? and all your rulers, that they may take up your cause? of whom you said, Give me a king and rulers.

  • 1 Sam 8:18-20
    3 verses
    75%

    18 Then you will be crying out because of your king whom you have taken for yourselves; but the Lord will not give you an answer in that day.

    19 But the people gave no attention to the voice of Samuel; and they said, No, but we will have a king over us,

    20 So that we may be like the other nations, and so that our king may be our judge and go out before us to war.

  • 1 Sam 12:12-14
    3 verses
    74%

    12 And when you saw that Nahash, the king of the Ammonites, was coming against you, you said to me, No more of this; we will have a king for our ruler: when the Lord your God was your king.

    13 Here, then, is the king marked out by you: the Lord has put a king over you.

    14 If in the fear of the Lord you are his servants, hearing his voice and not going against the orders of the Lord, but being true to the Lord your God, you and the king ruling over you, then all will be well:

  • Jer 16:10
    74%

    10 And it will be, that when you say all these words to the people, then they will say to you, Why has the Lord done all this evil against us? what is our wrongdoing and what is our sin which we have done against the Lord our God?

  • Hos 10:2
    73%

    2 Their mind is taken away; now they will be made waste: he will have their altars broken down, he will give their pillars to destruction.

  • 1 Sam 8:9
    73%

    9 Give ear now to their voice: but make a serious protest to them, and give them a picture of the sort of king who will be their ruler.

  • 1 Sam 10:19
    73%

    19 But today you are turned away from your God, who himself has been your saviour from all your troubles and sorrows; and you have said to him, Put a king over us. So now, take your places before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.

  • 2 Chr 10:16
    73%

    16 And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? every man to your tents, O Israel; now see to your house, David. So all Israel went to their tents.

  • Ezra 9:10
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    10 And now, O our God, what are we to say after this? for we have not kept your laws,

  • Lam 5:8
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    8 Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.

  • Josh 22:23-24
    2 verses
    72%

    23 That we have made ourselves an altar, being false to the Lord, keep us not safe from death this day; and if for the purpose of offering burned offerings on it and meal offerings, or peace-offerings, let the Lord himself send punishment for it;

    24 And if we have not, in fact, done this designedly and with purpose, having in our minds the fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, What have you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel?

  • Neh 9:37
    72%

    37 And it gives much increase to the kings whom you have put over us because of our sins: and they have power over our bodies and over our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great trouble.

  • 2 Kgs 10:4
    72%

    4 But they were full of fear, and said, The two kings have gone down before him: how may we keep our place?

  • Hos 10:4
    72%

    4 Their words are foolish; they make agreements with false oaths, so punishment will come up like a poison-plant in a ploughed field.

  • Hos 3:5
    72%

    5 And after that, the children of Israel will come back and go in search of the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come in fear to the Lord and to his mercies in the days to come.

  • Dan 9:14
    72%

    14 So the Lord has been watching over this evil and has made it come on us: for the Lord our God is upright in all his acts which he has done, and we have not given ear to his voice.

  • 1 Sam 8:6-7
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    72%

    6 But Samuel was not pleased when they said to him, Give us a king to be our judge. And Samuel made prayer to the Lord.

    7 And the Lord said to Samuel, Give ear to the voice of the people and what they say to you: they have not been turned away from you, but they have been turned away from me, not desiring me to be king over them.

  • Neh 9:34-35
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    34 And our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or given attention to your orders and your witness, with which you gave witness against them.

    35 For they have not been your servants in their kingdom, and in all the good things you gave them, and in the great and fat land you gave them, and they have not been turned away from their evil-doing.

  • Jer 10:7
    72%

    7 Who would not have fear of you, O King of the nations? for it is your right: for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you.

  • 2 Chr 20:12
    72%

    12 O our God, will you not be their judge? for our strength is not equal to this great army which is coming against us; and we are at a loss what to do: but our eyes are on you.

  • Jer 5:12
    72%

    12 They would have nothing to do with the Lord, saying, He will do nothing, and no evil will come to us; we will not see the sword or be short of food:

  • Judg 17:6
    71%

    6 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did as seemed right to him.

  • Jer 9:13
    71%

    13 And the Lord said, Because they have given up my law which I put before them, giving no attention to my voice and not being guided by it;

  • 1 Kgs 12:16
    71%

    16 And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? to your tents, O Israel; now see to your people, David. So Israel went away to their tents.

  • Jer 2:31
    71%

    31 O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?

  • Jer 42:13
    71%

    13 But if you say, We have no desire to go on living in this land; and do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God,

  • Deut 32:27
    71%

    27 But for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their pride, might say, Our hand is strong, the Lord has not done all this.

  • Dan 9:10
    71%

    10 And have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God to go in the way of his laws which he put before us by the mouth of his servants the prophets.

  • 1 Sam 12:19
    71%

    19 And all the people said to Samuel, Make prayer for us to the Lord your God so that death may not overtake us: for in addition to all our sins we have done this evil, in desiring a king.

  • 2 Kgs 17:34
    71%

    34 So to this day they go on in their old ways, not worshipping the Lord or keeping his orders or his ways or the law and the rule which the Lord gave to the children of Jacob, to whom he gave the name Israel;

  • Mic 3:11
    71%

    11 Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.

  • 2 Chr 17:10
    71%

    10 And the fear of the Lord was on all the kingdoms of the lands round Judah, so that they made no wars against Jehoshaphat.

  • Ps 2:3
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    3 Let their chains be broken, and their cords taken from off us.

  • Amos 1:15
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    15 And their king will be made prisoner, he and his captains together, says the Lord.

  • Deut 17:14
    70%

    14 When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and have taken it for a heritage and are living in it, if it is your desire to have a king over you, like the other nations round about you;

  • Dan 9:6
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    6 We have not given ear to your servants the prophets, who said words in your name to our kings and our rulers and our fathers and all the people of the land.

  • Joel 2:17
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    17 Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?

  • Josh 24:16
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    16 Then the people in answer said, Never will we give up the Lord to be the servants of other gods;

  • Isa 3:7
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    7 Then he will say with an oath, I will not be a helper, for in my house there is no bread or clothing: I will not let you make me a ruler of the people.

  • 2 Chr 29:10
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    10 Now it is my purpose to make an agreement with the Lord, the God of Israel, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from us.

  • Lam 5:16
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    16 The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.

  • Lam 4:16
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    16 The face of the Lord has sent them in all directions; he will no longer take care of them: they had no respect for the priests, they gave no honour to the old men.

  • Jer 3:25
    70%

    25 Let us be stretched on the earth in our downfall, covering ourselves with our shame: for we have been sinners against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our earliest years even till this day: and we have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God.