Hosea 9:10

New Century Version

“When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the desert. Your ancestors were like finding the first figs on the fig tree. But when they came to Baal Peor, they began worshiping an idol, and they became as hateful as the thing they worshiped.

Cross References

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.

2 Kings 17:11

The Israelites burned incense everywhere gods were worshiped, just as the nations who lived there before them had done, whom the Lord had forced out of the land. The Israelites did wicked things that made the Lord angry.

Psalm 115:8

People who make idols will be like them, and so will those who trust them.

Psalm 81:12

So I let them go their stubborn way and follow their own advice.

Song of Solomon 3:6

Who is this coming out of the desert like a cloud of smoke? Who is this that smells like myrrh, incense, and other spices?

Isaiah 28:4

That beautiful crown of flowers is just a dying plant set on a hill above a rich valley. That city will be like the first fig of summer. Anyone who sees it quickly picks it and eats it.

Jeremiah 11:13

Look, people of Judah, you have as many idols as there are towns in Judah. You have built as many altars to burn incense to that shameful god Baal as there are streets in Jerusalem.’

Jeremiah 24:2

One of the baskets had very good figs in it, like figs that ripen early in the season. But the other basket had figs too rotten to eat.

Jeremiah 3:24

Since our youth, shameful gods have eaten up in sacrifice everything our ancestors worked for— their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.

Jeremiah 3:25

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our disgrace cover us like a blanket. We have sinned against the Lord our God, both we and our ancestors. From our youth until now, we have not obeyed the Lord our God.”

Jeremiah 31:2

This is what the Lord says: “The people who were not killed by the enemy’s sword found help in the desert. I came to give rest to Israel.”

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets speak lies, and the priests take power into their own hands, and my people love it this way. But what will you do when the end comes?

Ezekiel 20:8

“ ‘But they turned against me and refused to listen to me. They did not throw away the hateful idols which they saw and liked; they did not give up the idols of Egypt. Then I decided to pour out my anger against them while they were still in Egypt.

Hosea 11:1

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

Hosea 13:5

I cared for them in the desert where it was hot and dry.

Hosea 2:15

There I will give her back her vineyards, and I will make the Valley of Trouble a door of hope. There she will respond as when she was young, as when she came out of Egypt.”

Hosea 4:14

“But I will not punish your daughters for becoming prostitutes, nor your daughters-in-law for their sins of adultery. I will not punish them, because the men have sexual relations with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with the temple prostitutes. A foolish people will be ruined.

Hosea 4:18

When they finish their drinking, they completely give themselves to being prostitutes; they love these disgraceful ways.

Amos 4:5

Offer bread made with yeast as a sacrifice to show your thanks, and brag about the special offerings you bring, because this is what you love to do, Israelites,” says the Lord God.

Micah 7:1

Poor me! I am like a hungry man, and all the summer fruit has been picked— there are no grapes left to eat, none of the early figs I love.

Numbers 15:39

You will have these tassels to look at to remind you of all the Lord’s commands. Then you will obey them and not be disloyal by following what your bodies and eyes want.

Numbers 18:13

When they bring to the Lord all the first things they harvest, they will be yours. Anyone in your family who is clean may eat these things.

Romans 6:21

You did evil things, and now you are ashamed of them. Those things only bring death.

Deuteronomy 32:10

He found them in a desert, a windy, empty land. He surrounded them and brought them up, guarding them as those he loved very much.

Deuteronomy 32:17

They made sacrifices to demons, not God, to gods they had never known, new gods from nearby, gods your ancestors did not fear.

Deuteronomy 4:3

You have seen for yourselves what the Lord did at Baal Peor, how the Lord your God destroyed everyone among you who followed Baal in Peor.

Judges 6:32

So on that day Gideon got the name Jerub-Baal, which means “let Baal fight against him,” because Gideon pulled down Baal’s altar.