Hosea 8:4

New Living Translation

The people have appointed kings without my consent, and princes without my approval. By making idols for themselves from their silver and gold, they have brought about their own destruction.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:28

So on the advice of his counselors, the king made two gold calves. He said to the people, “It is too much trouble for you to worship in Jerusalem. Look, Israel, these are the gods who brought you out of Egypt!”

1 Kings 13:34

This became a great sin and resulted in the utter destruction of Jeroboam’s dynasty from the face of the earth.

1 Kings 16:31

And as though it were not enough to follow the sinful example of Jeroboam, he married Jezebel, the daughter of King Ethbaal of the Sidonians, and he began to bow down in worship of Baal.

Jeremiah 16:20

Can people make their own gods? These are not real gods at all!”

Ezekiel 18:31

Put all your rebellion behind you, and find yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O people of Israel?

Daniel 3:1

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

Hosea 13:1

When the tribe of Ephraim spoke, the people shook with fear, for that tribe was important in Israel. But the people of Ephraim sinned by worshiping Baal and thus sealed their destruction.

Hosea 13:11

In my anger I gave you kings, and in my fury I took them away.

Hosea 13:2

Now they continue to sin by making silver idols, images shaped skillfully with human hands. “Sacrifice to these,” they cry, “and kiss the calf idols!”

Hosea 2:8

She doesn’t realize it was I who gave her everything she has— the grain, the new wine, the olive oil; I even gave her silver and gold. But she gave all my gifts to Baal.

Hosea 8:3

But it is too late. The people of Israel have rejected what is good, and now their enemies will chase after them.

Matthew 25:12

“But he called back, ‘Believe me, I don’t know you!’

Luke 13:25

When the master of the house has locked the door, it will be too late. You will stand outside knocking and pleading, ‘Lord, open the door for us!’ But he will reply, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’

Luke 13:27

And he will reply, ‘I tell you, I don’t know you or where you come from. Get away from me, all you who do evil.’

John 10:14

“I am the good shepherd; I know my own sheep, and they know me,

Galatians 4:9

So now that you know God (or should I say, now that God knows you), why do you want to go back again and become slaves once more to the weak and useless spiritual principles of this world?