Hosea 9:10

Good News Translation

The Lord says, “When I first found Israel, it was like finding grapes growing in the desert. When I first saw your ancestors, it was like seeing the first ripe figs of the season. But when they came to Mount Peor, they began to worship Baal and soon became as disgusting as the gods they loved.

Cross References

1 Kings 16:31

It was not enough for him to sin like King Jeroboam; he went further and married Jezebel, the daughter of King Ethbaal of Sidon, and worshiped Baal.

2 Kings 17:11

and they burned incense on all the pagan altars, following the practice of the people whom the Lord had driven out of the land. They aroused the Lord's anger with all their wicked deeds

Psalm 115:8

May all who made them and who trust in them become like the idols they have made.

Psalm 81:12

So I let them go their stubborn ways and do whatever they wanted.

Song of Solomon 3:6

What is this coming from the desert like a column of smoke, fragrant with incense and myrrh, the incense sold by the traders?

Isaiah 28:4

The fading glory of those proud leaders will disappear like the first figs of the season, picked and eaten as soon as they are ripe.

Jeremiah 11:13

The people of Judah have as many gods as they have cities, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem have set up as many altars for sacrifices to that disgusting god Baal as there are streets in the city.

Jeremiah 24:2

The first basket contained good figs, those that ripen early; the other one contained bad figs, too bad to eat.

Jeremiah 3:24

But the worship of Baal, the god of shame, has made us lose flocks and herds, sons and daughters—everything that our ancestors have worked for since ancient times.

Jeremiah 3:25

We should lie down in shame and let our disgrace cover us. We and our ancestors have always sinned against the Lord our God; we have never obeyed his commands.”

Jeremiah 31:2

In the desert I showed mercy to those people who had escaped death. When the people of Israel longed for rest,

Jeremiah 5:31

prophets speak nothing but lies; priests rule as the prophets command, and my people offer no objections. But what will they do when it all comes to an end?”

Ezekiel 20:8

But they defied me and refused to listen. They did not throw away their disgusting idols or give up the Egyptian gods. I was ready to let them feel the full force of my anger there in Egypt.

Hosea 11:1

The Lord says, “When Israel was a child, I loved him and called him out of Egypt as my son.

Hosea 13:5

I took care of you in a dry, desert land.

Hosea 2:15

I will give back to her the vineyards she had and make Trouble Valley a door of hope. She will respond to me there as she did when she was young, when she came from Egypt.

Hosea 4:14

Yet I will not punish them for this, because you yourselves go off with temple prostitutes, and together with them you offer pagan sacrifices. As the proverb says, ‘A people without sense will be ruined.’

Hosea 4:18

After drinking much wine, they delight in their prostitution, preferring disgrace to honor.

Amos 4:5

Go on and offer your bread in thanksgiving to God, and brag about the extra offerings you bring! This is the kind of thing you love to do.

Micah 7:1

It's hopeless! I am like a hungry person who finds no fruit left on the trees and no grapes on the vines. All the grapes and all the tasty figs have been picked.

Numbers 15:39

The tassels will serve as reminders, and each time you see them you will remember all my commands and obey them; then you will not turn away from me and follow your own wishes and desires.

Numbers 18:13

It all belongs to you. Every member of your family who is ritually clean may eat it.

Romans 6:21

What did you gain from doing the things that you are now ashamed of? The result of those things is death!

Deuteronomy 32:10

“He found them wandering through the desert, a desolate, wind-swept wilderness. He protected them and cared for them, as he would protect himself.

Deuteronomy 32:17

They sacrificed to gods that are not real, new gods their ancestors had never known, gods that Israel had never obeyed.

Deuteronomy 4:3

You yourselves saw what the Lord did at Mount Peor. He destroyed everyone who worshiped Baal there,

Judges 6:32

From then on Gideon was known as Jerubbaal, because Joash said, “Let Baal defend himself; it is his altar that was torn down.”