Cross References

- Advertisements -




Hosea 6:10

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I have seen something horrible  in the house of Israel: Ephraim’s promiscuity is there;  Israel is defiled.

See the chapter Copy

14 Cross References  

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me. For now, Ephraim, you have acted promiscuously; Israel is defiled.


Among the prophets of Jerusalem also I saw a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, and none turns his back on evil. They are all like Sodom  to me; Jerusalem’s residents are like Gomorrah.


Ephraim is attached to idols; leave him alone!


Promiscuity,  wine, and new wine take away one’s understanding.


‘Oholah acted like a prostitute even though she was mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians:  warriors


Therefore, this is what the Lord says: Ask among the nations, who has heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most horrible thing.


In the days of King Josiah the Lord asked me, ‘Have you seen what unfaithful Israel has done? She has ascended every high hill and gone under every green tree to prostitute herself there.


This disaster happened because the people of Israel sinned against the Lord their God who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt  and because they worshipped  other gods.


This was because Jeroboam had angered  the Lord God of Israel by the sins he had committed and had caused Israel to commit.


But he rejected the advice of the elders who had advised him  and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him and attended him.


She offered her sexual favours to them; all of them were the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all those she lusted after and with all their idols.


My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of promiscuity leads them astray; they act promiscuously in disobedience to   their God.





Follow us:

Advertisements


Advertisements