Hosea 10:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. Thorn and thistle shall grow up on their altars. They shall say to the mountains, “Cover us,” and to the hills, “Fall on us.”

Cross References

Genesis 3:8

They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

1 Kings 13:2

And he cried out against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the Lord: A son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who offer incense on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.”

1 Kings 13:34

This matter became sin to the house of Jeroboam, so as to cut it off and to destroy it from the face of the earth.

1 Kings 14:16

He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and which he caused Israel to commit.”

2 Kings 23:15

Moreover, the altar at Bethel, the high place erected by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin—he pulled down that altar along with the high place. He burned the high place, crushing it to dust; he also burned the sacred pole.

2 Chronicles 31:1

Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke down the pillars, cut down the sacred poles, and pulled down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned to their cities, all to their individual properties.

Isaiah 2:19

Enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from the terror of the Lord and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.

Isaiah 2:21

to enter the caverns of the rocks and the clefts in the crags, from the terror of the Lord and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.

Isaiah 32:13

for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers, yes, for all the joyous houses in the jubilant city.

Isaiah 34:13

Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.

Hosea 10:2

Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. The Lord will break down their altars and destroy their pillars.

Hosea 10:5

The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf of Beth-aven. Its people shall mourn for it, and its idolatrous priests shall wail over it, over its glory that has departed from it.

Hosea 10:9

Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel; there they have continued. Shall not war overtake them in Gibeah?

Hosea 2:6

Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.

Hosea 4:13

They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains and make offerings upon the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth because their shade is good. Therefore your daughters prostitute themselves, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

Hosea 4:15

Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, do not let Judah become guilty. Do not enter into Gilgal or go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear, “As the Lord lives.”

Hosea 5:8

Blow the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah. Sound the alarm at Beth-aven; look behind you, Benjamin!

Hosea 8:5

Your calf is rejected, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

Hosea 9:6

For even if they escape destruction, Egypt shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver; thorns shall be in their tents.

Amos 1:5

I will break the gate bars of Damascus and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven and the one who holds the scepter from Beth-eden, and the people of Aram shall go into exile to Kir, says the Lord.

Amos 3:14

On the day I punish Israel for its transgressions, I will punish the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground.

Amos 7:9

the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”

Amos 8:14

Those who swear by Ashimah of Samaria and say, “As your god lives, O Dan,” and, “As the way of Beer-sheba lives”— they shall fall and never rise again.

Micah 1:13

Harness the steeds to the chariots, inhabitants of Lachish; it was the beginning of sin to daughter Zion, for in you were found the transgressions of Israel.

Micah 1:5

All this is for the transgression of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?

Nahum 3:11

You also will be drunken; you will go into hiding; you will seek a refuge from the enemy.

Luke 23:30

Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’

Deuteronomy 9:21

Then I took the sinful thing you had made, the calf, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it thoroughly, until it was reduced to dust, and I threw the dust into the stream that runs down the mountain.

Revelation 6:16

calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,

Revelation 9:6

And in those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.