Hosea 12:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

My word came to the ears of the prophets and I gave them visions in great number, and by the mouths of the prophets I made use of comparisons.

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  • Hos 4:15 : 15 Do not you, O Israel, come into error; do not you, O Judah, come to Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven, or take an oath, By the living Lord.
  • Hos 6:8 : 8 Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.
  • Hos 8:11 : 11 Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.
  • Hos 9:15 : 15 All their evil-doing is in Gilgal; there I had hate for them; because of their evil-doing I will send them out of my house; they will no longer be dear to me; all their rulers are uncontrolled.
  • Hos 10:1 : 1 Israel is a branching vine, full of fruit; as his fruit is increased, so the number of his altars is increased; as the land is fair, so they have made fair pillars.
  • Amos 4:4 : 4 Come to Beth-el and do evil; to Gilgal, increasing the number of your sins; come with your offerings every morning and your tenths every three days:
  • Amos 5:5 : 5 Do not be looking for help to Beth-el, and do not go to Gilgal, or make your way to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal will certainly be taken prisoner, and Beth-el will come to nothing.
  • Jonah 2:8 : 8 When my soul in me was overcome, I kept the memory of the Lord: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy Temple.
  • 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 And Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, By the living Lord, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word.
  • 2 Kgs 17:9-9 : 9 And the children of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things which were not right, building high places for themselves in all their towns, from the tower of the watchmen to the walled town. 10 They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree: 11 Burning their offerings in all the high places, as those nations did whom the Lord sent away from before them; they did evil things, moving the Lord to wrath;
  • Jer 2:20 : 20 For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman
  • Jer 2:28 : 28 But where are the gods you have made for yourselves? let them come, if they are able to give you salvation in the time of your trouble: for the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah.
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.
  • Jer 10:15 : 15 They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Hos 6:7-8
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    76%

    7 But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.

    8 Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.

  • Hos 9:15
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    15 All their evil-doing is in Gilgal; there I had hate for them; because of their evil-doing I will send them out of my house; they will no longer be dear to me; all their rulers are uncontrolled.

  • Hos 10:8-9
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    8 And the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will come to destruction; thorns and waste plants will come up on their altars; they will say to the mountains, Be a cover over us; and to the hills, Come down on us.

    9 O Israel, you have done evil from the days of Gibeah; there they took up their position, so that the fighting against the children of evil might not overtake them in Gibeah.

  • Isa 27:9
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    9 So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.

  • Hos 8:11
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    11 Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.

  • Amos 4:4
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    4 Come to Beth-el and do evil; to Gilgal, increasing the number of your sins; come with your offerings every morning and your tenths every three days:

  • Hos 10:1-2
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    1 Israel is a branching vine, full of fruit; as his fruit is increased, so the number of his altars is increased; as the land is fair, so they have made fair pillars.

    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.

  • Amos 6:12
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    12 Is it possible for horses to go running on the rock? may the sea be ploughed with oxen? for the right to be turned by you into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into a bitter plant?

  • Mic 1:5
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    5 All this is because of the wrongdoing of Jacob and the sins of the children of Israel. What is the wrongdoing of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?

  • Zech 10:2
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    2 For the images have said what is not true, and the readers of signs have seen deceit; they have given accounts of false dreams, they give comfort to no purpose: so they go out of the way like sheep, they are troubled because they have no keeper.

  • Hos 10:4-5
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    4 Their words are foolish; they make agreements with false oaths, so punishment will come up like a poison-plant in a ploughed field.

    5 The people of Samaria will be full of fear because of the ox of Beth-aven; its people will have sorrow for it, and its priests will give cries of grief for its glory, for the glory has gone in flight.

  • Jer 11:13
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    13 For the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah; and for every street in Jerusalem you have put up altars to the Baal for burning perfumes to the Baal.

  • Isa 1:11
    70%

    11 What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

  • Hos 9:9
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    9 They have gone deep in evil as in the days of Gibeah; he will keep in mind their wrongdoing, he will give them punishment for their sins.

  • Amos 5:5
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    5 Do not be looking for help to Beth-el, and do not go to Gilgal, or make your way to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal will certainly be taken prisoner, and Beth-el will come to nothing.

  • Jer 2:5
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    5 These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?

  • 2 Kgs 17:10-12
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    10 They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:

    11 Burning their offerings in all the high places, as those nations did whom the Lord sent away from before them; they did evil things, moving the Lord to wrath;

    12 And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.

  • Hos 10:13
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    13 You have been ploughing sin, you have got in a store of evil, the fruit of deceit has been your food: for you put faith in your way, in the number of your men of war.

  • Mic 3:12
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    12 For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.

  • Hos 11:2
    69%

    2 When I sent for them, then they went away from me; they made offerings to the Baals, burning perfumes to images.

  • Hos 8:5
    69%

    5 I will have nothing to do with your young ox, O Samaria; my wrath is burning against them; how long will it be before the children of Israel make themselves clean?

  • Deut 11:30
    69%

    30 Are they not on the other side of Jordan, looking west, in the land of the Canaanites living in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, by the holy tree of Moreh?

  • Jer 12:11
    69%

    11 They have made it waste; it is weeping to me, being wasted; all the land is made waste, because no man takes it to heart.

  • Judg 6:25-26
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    69%

    25 The same night the Lord said to him, Take ten men of your servants and an ox seven years old, and after pulling down the altar of Baal which is your father's, and cutting down the holy tree by its side,

    26 Make an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this rock, in the ordered way and take the ox and make a burned offering with the wood of the holy tree which has been cut down.

  • Hos 4:15
    69%

    15 Do not you, O Israel, come into error; do not you, O Judah, come to Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven, or take an oath, By the living Lord.

  • Hos 13:2
    68%

    2 And now their sins are increased; they have made themselves a metal image, false gods from their silver, after their designs, all of them the work of the metal-workers; they say of them, Let them give offerings, let men give kisses to the oxen.

  • Amos 3:14
    68%

    14 For in the day when I give Israel punishment for his sins, I will send punishment on the altars of Beth-el, and the horns of the altar will be cut off and come down to the earth.

  • Mic 6:11
    68%

    11 Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?

  • Hos 12:10
    68%

    10 But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will give you tents for your living-places again as in the days of the holy meeting.

  • Jer 17:2
    68%

    2 Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.

  • Isa 5:18
    68%

    18 Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!

  • Jer 5:11
    68%

    11 For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.

  • Jer 5:7
    68%

    7 How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women.

  • Hos 12:12
    68%

    12 In Gilead there is evil. They are quite without value; in Gilgal they make offerings of oxen; truly their altars are like masses of stones in the hollows of a ploughed field.

  • 1 Sam 15:21
    68%

    21 But the people took some of their goods, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which were put to the curse, to make an offering of them to the Lord your God in Gilgal.

  • Hos 14:1
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    1 Samaria will be made waste, for she has gone against her God: they will be cut down by the sword, their little children will be broken on the rocks, their women who are with child will be cut open.

  • Judg 6:28
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    28 And the men of the town got up early in the morning, and they saw the altar of Baal broken down, and the holy tree which was by it cut down, and the ox offered on the altar which had been put up there.

  • Hos 5:5
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    5 And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; and Ephraim will have a fall through his sins, and the fall of Judah will be the same as theirs.

  • Jer 23:13
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    13 And I have seen ways without sense in the prophets of Samaria; they became prophets of the Baal, causing my people Israel to go wrong.

  • Jer 2:11
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    11 Has any nation ever made a change in their gods, though they are no gods? but my people have given up their glory in exchange for what is of no profit.

  • Jer 11:17
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    17 For the Lord of armies, by whom you were planted, has given his decision for evil against you, because of the evil which the people of Israel and the people of Judah have done, In moving me to wrath by offering perfumes to the Baal.

  • Mal 1:14
    68%

    14 A curse on the false man who has a male in his flock, and takes his oath, and gives to the Lord a damaged thing: for I am a great King, says the Lord of armies, and my name is to be feared among the Gentiles.

  • Isa 66:3
    67%

    3 He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things;