Hosea 12:11

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

I spoke through the prophets and gave many visions; through the prophets, I used parables.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    Is there iniquity in Gilead? Surely they are vanity; they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal; yes, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Is Gilead{H1568} iniquity?{H205} they are altogether false;{H7723} in Gilgal{H1537} they sacrifice{H2076} bullocks;{H7794} yea, their altars{H4196} are as heaps{H1530} in the furrows{H8525} of the field.{H7704}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Is there iniquity{H205} in Gilead{H1568}? surely they are vanity{H7723}: they sacrifice{H2076}{(H8765)} bullocks{H7794} in Gilgal{H1537}; yea, their altars{H4196} are as heaps{H1530} in the furrows{H8525} of the fields{H7704}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    But at Galaad is the abhominacion, they are fallen to vanyte. At Galgal they haue slayne oxen: and as many heapes of stones as they had in their lode forowes, so many aulters haue they made.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Is there iniquitie in Gilead? surely they are vanitie: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal, and their altars are as heapes in the furrowes of the field.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    In Galaad is iniquitie, they are fallen to vanitie: at Gilgal they haue sacrificed oxen, & their aulters are as heapes in the furrowes of the fielde.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    [Is there] iniquity [in] Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    If Gilead is wicked, Surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Surely Gilead `is' iniquity, Only, vanity they have been, In Gilead bullocks they have sacrificed, Also their altars `are' as heaps, on the furrows of a field.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Is Gilead iniquity? they are altogether false; in Gilgal they sacrifice bullocks; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Is Gilead iniquity? they are altogether false; in Gilgal they sacrifice bullocks; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field.

  • 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    If Gilead is wicked, surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Is there idolatry in Gilead? Certainly its inhabitants will come to nothing! Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Surely their altars will be like stones heaped up on a plowed field!

Referenced Verses

  • Hos 4:15 : 15 Though you, Israel, play the harlot, let not Judah become guilty. Do not go to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth Aven, and do not swear, 'As surely as the LORD lives!'
  • Hos 6:8 : 8 Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with blood.
  • Hos 8:11 : 11 Ephraim has built many altars for sin; they have become altars for sinning.
  • Hos 9:15 : 15 All their wickedness is at Gilgal, for there I began to hate them. Because of their evil deeds, I will drive them from My house. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.
  • Hos 10:1 : 1 Israel is a luxuriant vine that yields its fruit. The more abundant his fruit, the more altars he built. The richer his land, the more he adorned sacred pillars.
  • Amos 4:4 : 4 Come to Bethel and transgress, go to Gilgal and multiply sins; bring your sacrifices every morning and your tithes every three days.
  • Amos 5:5 : 5 Do not seek Bethel, do not go to Gilgal, and do not cross over to Beersheba; for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will become nothing but trouble.
  • Jonah 2:8 : 8 As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD, and my prayer rose to You, to Your holy temple.
  • 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 Elijah, the Tishbite from the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years, except by my word."
  • 2 Kgs 17:9-9 : 9 The Israelites secretly did things against the Lord their God that were not right. They built high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city. 10 They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every leafy tree. 11 There, on all the high places, they burned incense as the nations whom the Lord had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that provoked the Lord to anger.
  • Jer 2:20 : 20 For long ago I broke your yoke and tore off your bonds, but you said, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
  • Jer 2:28 : 28 But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise and save you in your time of trouble, if they can. For as many as your cities are your gods, Judah.
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 They are all senseless and foolish; their instruction comes from worthless idols.
  • Jer 10:15 : 15 They are worthless, a work of mockery; at the time of their punishment, they will perish.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Hos 6:7-8
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    7 But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they dealt treacherously with Me.

    8 Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with blood.

  • Hos 9:15
    72%

    15 All their wickedness is at Gilgal, for there I began to hate them. Because of their evil deeds, I will drive them from My house. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.

  • Hos 10:8-9
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    72%

    8 The high places of wickedness will be destroyed—it is the sin of Israel. Thorns and thistles will grow over their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, 'Cover us!' and to the hills, 'Fall on us!

    9 From the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, Israel, and there they have remained. Will not war overtake them in Gibeah because of their wickedness?

  • Isa 27:9
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    9 By this, the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the altar stones like crushed chalk stones, and no Asherah poles or incense altars will stand.

  • Hos 8:11
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    11 Ephraim has built many altars for sin; they have become altars for sinning.

  • Amos 4:4
    71%

    4 Come to Bethel and transgress, go to Gilgal and multiply sins; bring your sacrifices every morning and your tithes every three days.

  • Hos 10:1-2
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    71%

    1 Israel is a luxuriant vine that yields its fruit. The more abundant his fruit, the more altars he built. The richer his land, the more he adorned sacred pillars.

    2 Their hearts are divided; now they must bear their guilt. He will tear down their altars and destroy their sacred pillars.

  • Amos 6:12
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    12 Do horses run on rocky cliffs? Does one plow there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness.

  • Mic 1:5
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    5 All this is because of the transgression of Jacob and the sins of the house of Israel. What is Jacob’s transgression? Is it not Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Are they not Jerusalem?

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    70%

    2 For the household idols speak deceit, and the diviners see false visions. They tell deceitful dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore, the people wander like sheep, oppressed because they have no shepherd.

  • Hos 10:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4 They speak mere words, making covenants with false oaths, and judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

    5 The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf idol of Beth-aven. Its people will mourn over it, and so will its idolatrous priests, who rejoiced over its glory, because it will be taken from them.

  • Jer 11:13
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    13 For your gods, Judah, are as numerous as your cities; and the altars you have set up to the shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal, are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.

  • Isa 1:11
    70%

    11 "What is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?" says the LORD. "I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed animals; I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs, or goats.

  • Hos 9:9
    70%

    9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity; He will punish their sins.

  • Amos 5:5
    70%

    5 Do not seek Bethel, do not go to Gilgal, and do not cross over to Beersheba; for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will become nothing but trouble.

  • Jer 2:5
    69%

    5 This is what the LORD says: ‘What fault did your ancestors find in me that they strayed so far from me? They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves.

  • 2 Kgs 17:10-12
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    69%

    10 They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every leafy tree.

    11 There, on all the high places, they burned incense as the nations whom the Lord had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that provoked the Lord to anger.

    12 They served idols, about which the Lord had said to them, 'You shall not do this thing.'

  • Hos 10:13
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    13 But you have planted wickedness, reaped injustice, and eaten the fruit of deception. Because you trusted in your own way and in your many warriors,

  • Mic 3:12
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    12 Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become a high place overgrown with thickets.

  • Hos 11:2
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    2 But the more they were called, the more they went away from them; they sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to the carved images.

  • Hos 8:5
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    5 Your calf idol is rejected, Samaria! My anger burns against them. How long will they be unable to attain innocence?

  • Deut 11:30
    69%

    30 Are these mountains not across the Jordan, westward, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, near the oaks of Moreh?

  • Jer 12:11
    69%

    11 They have made it a desolation, and it mourns before me. The whole land is desolate, but no one takes it to heart.

  • Judg 6:25-26
    2 verses
    69%

    25 That same night the Lord said to him, 'Take the second bull from your father's herd, the one seven years old. Tear down your father’s altar to Baal and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.'

    26 Then build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this stronghold, laying the stones in an orderly way. Take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering using the wood of the Asherah pole you cut down.

  • Hos 4:15
    69%

    15 Though you, Israel, play the harlot, let not Judah become guilty. Do not go to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth Aven, and do not swear, 'As surely as the LORD lives!'

  • Hos 13:2
    68%

    2 Now they continue to sin and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully crafted from their silver, all of it the work of artisans. They say about them, 'Those who sacrifice kiss the calves!'

  • Amos 3:14
    68%

    14 For on the day I punish Israel for their transgressions, I will also punish the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.

  • Mic 6:11
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    11 Shall I acquit a person with crooked scales and a bag of deceptive weights?

  • Hos 12:10
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    10 I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt. I will make you live in tents again, as in the days of the appointed festivals.

  • Jer 17:2
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    2 Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles beside the green trees on the high hills.

  • Isa 5:18
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    18 Woe to those who drag iniquity with cords of falsehood and sin as if with cart ropes!

  • Jer 5:11
    68%

    11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been thoroughly unfaithful to Me, declares the Lord.

  • Jer 5:7
    68%

    7 How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by false gods. I satisfied them, but they committed adultery and gathered at the houses of prostitutes.

  • Hos 12:12
    68%

    12 If Gilead is wicked, surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls—indeed, their altars are like heaps of stone in the furrows of the field.

  • 1 Sam 15:21
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    21 But the people took sheep and cattle from the plunder—the best of what was devoted to destruction—to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal.

  • Hos 14:1
    68%

    1 Samaria will be found guilty, for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their infants will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.

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    28 When the men of the city got up early in the morning, they saw that the altar of Baal had been torn down, the Asherah pole was cut down, and the second bull offered on the newly built altar.

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    5 The pride of Israel testifies against him; Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their guilt, and Judah also will stumble with them.

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    13 Among the prophets of Samaria I saw something disgraceful: They prophesied by Baal and led My people Israel astray.

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    11 Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their glory for worthless idols.

  • Jer 11:17
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    17 The LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has pronounced disaster against you because of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done to provoke me by burning incense to Baal.

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    14 Cursed is the deceiver who has a male animal in his flock and vows to give it, but instead sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord. For I am a great King, says the LORD of Hosts, and my name is to be feared among the nations.

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    3 The one who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man; the one who sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; the one who offers a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s blood; the one who offers incense is like one who blesses an idol. They have chosen their own ways and their souls delight in their abominations.