Hosea 2:8

God's Word

“She doesn’t believe that I gave her grain, new wine, and olive oil. I gave her plenty of silver and gold, but she used it to make statues of Baal.

Cross References

Isaiah 1:3

Oxen know their owners, and donkeys know where their masters feed them. But Israel doesn’t know ⌞its owner⌟. My people don’t understand ⌞who feeds them⌟.

Hosea 13:2

They keep on sinning more and more. They make idols from silver for themselves. These idols are skillfully made. All of them are the work of craftsmen. People say this about the Israelites: “They offer human sacrifices and kiss calf-shaped idols.”

Hosea 8:4

“They chose their own kings, kings I didn’t approve. They chose their own princes, princes I didn’t know. They chose to make idols with their own silver and gold. Because of this, they will be destroyed.

Hosea 4:11

Prostitutes, old wine, and new wine have robbed them of their senses.

Romans 1:28

And because they thought it was worthless to acknowledge God, God allowed their own immoral minds to control them. So they do these indecent things.

Luke 15:13

“After a few days, the younger son gathered his possessions and left for a country far away from home. There he wasted everything he had on a wild lifestyle.

Habakkuk 1:16

That is why they sacrifice to their nets and burn incense to their dragnets. They are rich and well fed because of them.

Hosea 2:5

Their mother acted like a prostitute. The woman who became pregnant with them did shameful things. She said, ‘I’ll chase after my lovers. They will give me food and water, wool and linen, olive oil and wine.’

Daniel 5:23

But you made yourself greater than the Lord of heaven. You had the utensils from his temple brought to you. You, your nobles, wives, and concubines drank wine from them. You praised your gods made of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, or stone. These gods can’t see, hear, or know anything. You didn’t honor God, who has power over your life and everything you do.

Jeremiah 7:18

Children gather wood, fathers light fires, and women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven. They pour out wine offerings to other gods in order to make me furious.

Isaiah 46:6

People pour gold out of their bags and weigh silver on scales. They hire a goldsmith. He makes it into a god. They bow down and worship it.

Judges 9:27

They went into the country and harvested grapes in the vineyards to make wine. Then they made an offering of praise in the temple of their gods. They ate, drank, and cursed Abimelech.

Hosea 10:1

The people of Israel are like vines that used to produce fruit. The more fruit they produced, the more altars they built. The more their land produced, the more stone markers they set up ⌞to honor other gods⌟.

Deuteronomy 8:18

But remember the Lord your God is the one who makes you wealthy. He’s confirming the promise  which he swore to your ancestors. It’s still in effect today.

Ezekiel 23:41

They sat on their fine couches with tables in front of them. They put my incense and my olive oil on their tables.

Daniel 3:1

King Nebuchadnezzar made a gold statue 90 feet high and 9 feet wide. He set it up in a recessed area in the wall  in the province of Babylon.

Hosea 13:1

When the tribe of Ephraim spoke, people trembled. The people of Ephraim were important in Israel. Then they became guilty of worshiping Baal, so they must die.

1 Chronicles 29:16

“Lord, our God, all this wealth that we gathered to build a temple for your holy name is from you. All of it is yours.

Job 19:8

“God has blocked my path so that I can’t go on. He has made my paths dark.