Hosea 8:4

New Century Version

They chose their own kings without asking my permission. They chose their own leaders, people I did not know. They made their silver and gold into idols, and for all this they will be destroyed.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:28

King Jeroboam asked for advice. Then he made two golden calves. “It is too long a journey for you to go to Jerusalem to worship,” he said to the people. “Israel, here are your gods who brought you out of Egypt.”

1 Kings 13:34

In this way the family of Jeroboam sinned, and this sin caused its ruin and destruction from the earth.

1 Kings 16:31

He sinned in the same ways as Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he did even worse things. He married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal, the king of Sidon. Then Ahab began to serve Baal and worship him.

Jeremiah 16:20

Can people make gods for themselves? They will not really be gods!”

Ezekiel 18:31

Get rid of all the sins you have done, and get for yourselves a new heart and a new way of thinking. Why do you want to die, people of Israel?

Daniel 3:1

King Nebuchadnezzar made a gold statue ninety feet high and nine feet wide and set it up on the plain of Dura in the area of Babylon.

Hosea 13:1

People used to fear the tribe of Ephraim; they were important people in Israel. But they sinned by worshiping Baal, so they must die.

Hosea 13:11

So I gave you a king, but only in anger, and I took him away in my great anger.

Hosea 13:2

But they still keep on sinning more and more. They make idols of their silver, idols that are cleverly made, the work of a craftsman. Yet the people of Israel say to each other, “Kiss those calf idols and sacrifice to them.”

Hosea 2:8

But she does not know that I was the one who gave her grain, new wine, and oil. I gave her much silver and gold, but she used it for Baal.

Hosea 8:3

But Israel has rejected what is good, so the enemy will chase them.

Matthew 25:12

But the bridegroom answered, ‘I tell you the truth, I don’t want to know you.’

Luke 13:25

When the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you can stand outside and knock on the door and say, ‘Sir, open the door for us.’ But he will answer, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’

Luke 13:27

But he will say to you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from. Go away from me, all you who do evil!’

John 10:14

“I am the good shepherd. I know my sheep, and my sheep know me,

Galatians 4:9

But now you know the true God. Really, it is God who knows you. So why do you turn back to those weak and useless rules you followed before? Do you want to be slaves to those things again?