Hosea 12:11

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.

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  • Hos 4:15 : 15 Though you, Israel, play the harlot, do not let Judah offend; do not come to Gilgal, nor go up to Bethaven, nor swear, 'As the LORD lives.'
  • Hos 6:8 : 8 Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity, and it is polluted with blood.
  • Hos 8:11 : 11 Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin, altars shall be to him for sin.
  • Hos 9:15 : 15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them; for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.
  • Hos 10:1 : 1 Israel is an empty vine, he brings forth fruit for himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he has increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made beautiful images.
  • Amos 4:4 : 4 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgressions; bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes every three years:
  • Amos 5:5 : 5 But do not seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and do not pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing.
  • Jonah 2:8 : 8 Those who regard worthless idols forsake their own mercy.
  • 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain for these years, except by my word.
  • 2 Kgs 17:9-9 : 9 The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortified city. 10 They set up images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree. 11 There they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations had done whom the LORD carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger.
  • Jer 2:20 : 20 For from of old I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree you wandered, playing the harlot.
  • Jer 2:28 : 28 But where are your gods that you have made? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah.
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the wooden idol is a doctrine of vanities.
  • Jer 10:15 : 15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation, they shall perish.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Hos 6:7-8
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    76%

    7But like men they have transgressed the covenant: there they have dealt treacherously against me.

    8Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity, and it is polluted with blood.

  • Hos 9:15
    72%

    15All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them; for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.

  • Hos 10:8-9
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    72%

    8The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: thorns and thistles shall grow on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, 'Cover us,' and to the hills, 'Fall on us.'

    9O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.

  • Isa 27:9
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    9By this shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten apart, the groves and images shall not stand up.

  • Hos 8:11
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    11Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin, altars shall be to him for sin.

  • Amos 4:4
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    4Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgressions; bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes every three years:

  • Hos 10:1-2
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    1Israel is an empty vine, he brings forth fruit for himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he has increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made beautiful images.

    2Their heart is divided; now they shall be found guilty: he shall break down their altars, he shall ruin their images.

  • Amos 6:12
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    12Shall horses run on the rock? Will one plow there with oxen? For you have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

  • Mic 1:5
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    5All this is for the transgression of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression 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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    2For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie and told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Therefore they went their way as a flock; they were troubled because there was no shepherd.

  • Hos 10:4-5
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    4They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springs up as poison in the furrows of the field.

    5The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for its people shall mourn over it, and its priests who rejoiced on it, for its glory, because it has departed from it.

  • Jer 11:13
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    13For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.

  • Isa 1:11
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    11To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? says the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals; and I delight not in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of goats.

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

  • Amos 5:5
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    5But do not seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and do not pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing.

  • Jer 2:5
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    5Thus says the LORD, What wrong have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have followed idols, and have become idolaters?

  • 2 Kgs 17:10-12
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    10They set up images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree.

    11There they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations had done whom the LORD carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger.

    12For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

  • Hos 10:13
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    13You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies: because you trusted in your own way, in the multitude of your mighty men.

  • Mic 3:12
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    12Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

  • Hos 11:2
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    2As they were called, so they went from them: they sacrificed to Baal, and burned incense to carved images.

  • Hos 8:5
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    5Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off; my anger is kindled against them. How long will it be until they attain innocence?

  • Deut 11:30
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    30Are they not on the other side of the Jordan, by the way where the sun goes down, in the land of the Canaanites, who dwell in the plain over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?

  • Jer 12:11
    69%

    11They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourns to Me; the whole land is made desolate, because no one lays it to heart.

  • Judg 6:25-26
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    69%

    25And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take your father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the grove that is by it:

    26And build an altar unto the LORD your God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which you shall cut down.

  • Hos 4:15
    69%

    15Though you, Israel, play the harlot, do not let Judah offend; do not come to Gilgal, nor go up to Bethaven, nor swear, 'As the LORD lives.'

  • Hos 13:2
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    2And now they sin more and more, and have made molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

  • Amos 3:14
    68%

    14That in the day I visit the transgressions of Israel upon him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel; and the horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground.

  • Mic 6:11
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    11Shall I count them pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

  • Hos 12:10
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    10I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used parables, by the ministry of the prophets.

  • Jer 17:2
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    2While their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

  • Isa 5:18
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    18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as if with a cart rope:

  • Jer 5:11
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    11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says the LORD.

  • Jer 5:7
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    7How shall I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

  • Hos 12:12
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    12Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

  • 1 Sam 15:21
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    21But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal.

  • Hos 14:1
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    1O Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity.

  • Judg 6:28
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    28And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built.

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    5And the pride of Israel testifies to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.

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    13And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied by Baal and caused my people Israel to err.

  • Jer 2:11
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    11Has a nation changed their gods, which are not gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

  • Jer 11:17
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    17For the LORD of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense to Baal.

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    14But cursed be the deceiver, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name is feared among the heathen.

  • Isa 66:3
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    3He that kills an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrifices a lamb, as if he broke a dog's neck; he that offers an offering, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burns incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.