Hosea 6:10

New International Reader's Version

I have seen a horrible thing in Israel. The people of Ephraim are unfaithful to their own God. The people of Israel are ‘unclean.’

Cross References

1 Kings 12:8

But Rehoboam didn’t accept the advice the elders gave him. Instead, he asked for advice from the young men. They had grown up with him and were now serving him.

1 Kings 15:30

The Lord judged Jeroboam’s family because of the sins Jeroboam had committed. He had also caused Israel to commit those same sins. He had made the Lord very angry. The Lord is the God of Israel.

2 Kings 17:7

All of this took place because the Israelites had sinned against the Lord their God. He had brought them up out of Egypt. He had brought them out from under the power of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. But they worshiped other gods.

Jeremiah 18:13

So the Lord says, “Ask the nations a question. Say to them, ‘Who has ever heard anything like this? The people of Israel have done a very horrible thing.

Jeremiah 23:14

I have also seen something horrible among Jerusalem’s prophets. They are not faithful to me. They are not living by the truth. They strengthen the hands of those who do evil. So not one of them turns from their sinful ways. All of them are like the people of Sodom to me. They are just like the people of Gomorrah.”

Jeremiah 3:6

During the time Josiah was king, the Lord spoke to me. He said, “Have you seen what the people of Israel have done? They have not been faithful to me. They have committed adultery with other gods. They worshiped them on every high hill and under every green tree.

Ezekiel 23:5

“Oholah was unfaithful to me even while she still belonged to me. She longed for her Assyrian lovers. They included soldiers

Ezekiel 23:7

She gave herself as a prostitute to all Assyria’s finest warriors. She made herself impure with the statues of the gods of everyone she longed for.

Hosea 4:11

with prostitutes. They drink old wine and fresh wine. Their drinking has destroyed their ability to understand.

Hosea 4:12

My people ask a wooden statue of a god for advice. They get answers from a stick of wood. They are as unfaithful as prostitutes. They are not faithful to their God.

Hosea 4:17

The people of Ephraim have joined themselves to other gods. And nothing can be done to help them.

Hosea 5:3

I know all about the people of Ephraim. What Israel is doing is not hidden from me. Now they have joined themselves to other gods. They have made themselves ‘unclean.’