Hosea 8:11

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Ephraim has built many altars for sin; they have become altars for sinning.

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  • Hos 12:11 : 11 I spoke through the prophets and gave many visions; through the prophets, I used parables.
  • Deut 4:28 : 28 There you will serve gods made by human hands—objects of wood and stone that cannot see, hear, eat, or smell.
  • Isa 10:10-11 : 10 Just as my hand seized the kingdoms of idols, whose carved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria, 11 shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I have done to Samaria and her images?
  • Jer 16:13 : 13 Therefore, I will hurl you out of this land into a land you and your ancestors have not known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.'
  • Hos 10:1-2 : 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.
  • Hos 10:8 : 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!

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  • Isa 27:9
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    9By 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 10:1-2
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    1Israel 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.

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

  • Hos 13:1-2
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    1When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel, but he became guilty by worshiping Baal and died.

    2Now 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!'

  • Hos 8:12-14
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    12Though I wrote for them the many things of my law, they regarded them as something foreign.

    13They offer sacrifices as gifts for me and eat the meat, but the LORD does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they will return to Egypt.

    14Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has fortified many cities. But I will send fire on their cities, and it will devour their strongholds.

  • Hos 5:11
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    11Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to follow human commands.

  • Jer 11:13
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    13For 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.

  • 2 Kgs 21:11
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    11'Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these detestable things, acting more wickedly than all the Amorites who were before him, and has caused Judah to sin with his idols,'

  • Hos 4:17
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    17Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone.

  • Hos 4:7-8
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    7The more they increased, the more they sinned against me. I will turn their glory into shame.

    8They feed on the sins of my people; they are greedy for their iniquity.

  • Hos 12:8
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    8Canaan, in whose hands are deceitful scales, loves to defraud.

  • Hos 13:12
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    12The guilt of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored away.

  • Hos 12:11
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    11I spoke through the prophets and gave many visions; through the prophets, I used parables.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11-12
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    11There, 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.

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

  • Hos 5:3-5
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    3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the harlot; Israel is defiled.

    4Their deeds do not allow them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the Lord.

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

  • Jer 17:1-2
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    1The sin of Judah is written with an iron pen, engraved with a diamond point, on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.

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

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

  • Amos 3:14
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    14For 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.

  • Hos 8:5-6
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    5Your calf idol is rejected, Samaria! My anger burns against them. How long will they be unable to attain innocence?

    6This calf comes from Israel! A craftsman made it; it is not God. It will be shattered into pieces—this calf of Samaria.

  • Hos 12:1
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    1Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit. But Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.

  • Hos 7:8
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    8Ephraim mixes himself among the nations; Ephraim is like a flatbread not turned over.

  • Hos 11:7-8
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    7My people are determined to turn from Me. Even though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them together.

    8How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I surrender you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is changed within Me; My compassion grows warm and tender.

  • Hos 6:10
    70%

    10In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There Ephraim acts like a prostitute; Israel is defiled.

  • 1 Kgs 12:30
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    30And this thing became a sin; the people came to worship the one at Bethel and went as far as Dan to worship the other.

  • Mic 1:5
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    5All 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?

  • Jer 5:7
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    7How 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 11:2
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    2But 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 8:10
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    10Even though they make alliances among the nations, I will now gather them, and they will soon suffer under the burden of a king and officials.

  • Hos 12:14
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    14But by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet, he was preserved.

  • 1 Kgs 14:16
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    16He will give up Israel because of the sins Jeroboam committed and made Israel commit.

  • Hos 10:8-9
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    70%

    8The 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!

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

  • 2 Kgs 23:15
    70%

    15Even the altar at Bethel, the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat had made, the one who caused Israel to sin—even that altar and the high place he tore down. He burned the high place, crushed it to dust, and burned the Asherah pole that was there.

  • Jer 11:10
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    10They have turned back to the sins of their ancestors, who refused to listen to my words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have violated my covenant, which I made with their ancestors.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
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    11Jehoram also built high places in the hills of Judah, leading the inhabitants of Jerusalem into unfaithfulness and causing Judah to stray.

  • Ezek 44:12
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    12Because they served them before their idols and caused the house of Israel to stumble into iniquity, therefore I have lifted My hand against them, declares the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their punishment.

  • Hos 5:9
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    9Ephraim will become a desolation on the day of punishment. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known what is certain.

  • Ezek 23:30
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    30These things will be done to you because you prostituted yourself to the nations, defiling yourself with their idols.

  • 2 Kgs 17:21
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    21For when Israel was torn from the house of David, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king. Jeroboam drove Israel away from following the Lord and led them into great sin.