But he rejected the advice of the elders who had advised him and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him and attended him.
Hosea 6:10 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised I have seen something horrible in the house of Israel: Ephraim’s promiscuity is there; Israel is defiled. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel! There harlotry and idolatry are found in Ephraim; Israel is defiled. American Standard Version (1901) In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there whoredom is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled. Common English Bible In the house of Israel I have seen something horrible; Ephraim acts like a prostitute; Israel is defiled. Catholic Public Domain Version I have seen horrible things in the house of Israel; the fornications of Ephraim are there. Israel has been contaminated. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the fornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled. |
But he rejected the advice of the elders who had advised him and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him and attended him.
This was because Jeroboam had angered the Lord God of Israel by the sins he had committed and had caused Israel to commit.
This disaster happened because the people of Israel sinned against the Lord their God who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt and because they worshipped other gods.
Therefore, this is what the Lord says: Ask among the nations, who has heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most horrible thing.
Among the prophets of Jerusalem also I saw a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, and none turns his back on evil. They are all like Sodom to me; Jerusalem’s residents are like Gomorrah.
In the days of King Josiah the Lord asked me, ‘Have you seen what unfaithful Israel has done? She has ascended every high hill and gone under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
‘Oholah acted like a prostitute even though she was mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians: warriors
She offered her sexual favours to them; all of them were the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all those she lusted after and with all their idols.
My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of promiscuity leads them astray; they act promiscuously in disobedience to their God.
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me. For now, Ephraim, you have acted promiscuously; Israel is defiled.