Hosea 8:11

American Standard Version (1901)

Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars for sinning, altars have been unto him for sinning.

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Referenced Verses

  • Hos 12:11 : 11 Is Gilead iniquity? they are altogether false; in Gilgal they sacrifice bullocks; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field.
  • Deut 4:28 : 28 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
  • Isa 10:10-11 : 10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; 11 shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
  • Jer 16:13 : 13 therefore will I cast you forth out of this land into the land that ye have not known, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; for I will show you no favor.
  • Hos 10:1-2 : 1 Israel is a luxuriant vine, that putteth forth his fruit: according to the abundance of his fruit he hath multiplied his altars; according to the goodness of their land they have made goodly [ pillars. 2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found guilty: he will smite their altars, he will destroy their pillars.
  • Hos 10:8 : 8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 27:9
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    9Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, [so that] the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.

  • Hos 10:1-2
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    1Israel is a luxuriant vine, that putteth forth his fruit: according to the abundance of his fruit he hath multiplied his altars; according to the goodness of their land they have made goodly [ pillars.

    2Their heart is divided; now shall they be found guilty: he will smite their altars, he will destroy their pillars.

  • Hos 13:1-2
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    1When Ephraim spake, there was trembling; he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.

    2And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

  • Hos 8:12-14
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    12I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing.

    13As for the sacrifices of mine offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; but Jehovah accepteth them not: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins; they shall return to Egypt.

    14For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and builded palaces; and Judah hath multiplied fortified cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the castles thereof.

  • Hos 5:11
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    11Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; because he was content to walk after [man's] command.

  • Jer 11:13
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    13For according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.

  • 2 Kgs 21:11
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    11Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, that were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols;

  • Hos 4:17
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    17Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.

  • Hos 4:7-8
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    7As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: I will change their glory into shame.

    8They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

  • Hos 12:8
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    8And Ephraim said, Surely I am become rich, I have found me wealth: in all my labors they shall find in me no iniquity that were sin.

  • Hos 13:12
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    12The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is laid up in store.

  • Hos 12:11
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    11Is Gilead iniquity? they are altogether false; in Gilgal they sacrifice bullocks; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11-12
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    71%

    11and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Jehovah carried away before them; and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger;

    12and they served idols, whereof Jehovah had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

  • Hos 5:3-5
    3 verses
    71%

    3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, O Ephraim, thou hast played the harlot, Israel is defiled.

    4Their doings will not suffer them to turn unto their God; for the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not Jehovah.

    5And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity; Judah also shall stumble with them.

  • Jer 17:1-2
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    71%

    1The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;

    2whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.

  • Hos 9:9
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    9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

  • Amos 3:14
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    14For in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him, I will also visit the altars of Beth-el; and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.

  • Hos 8:5-6
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    5He hath cast off thy calf, O Samaria; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

    6For from Israel is even this; the workman made it, and it is no God; yea, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

  • Hos 12:1
    71%

    1Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he continually multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

  • Hos 7:8
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    8Ephraim, he mixeth himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

  • Hos 11:7-8
    2 verses
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    7And my people are bent on backsliding from me: though they call them to [him that is] on high, none at all will exalt [him] .

    8How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? [how] shall I cast thee off, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? [how] shall I set thee as Zeboiim? my heart is turned within me, my compassions are kindled together.

  • Hos 6:10
    70%

    10In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there whoredom is [found] in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

  • 1 Kgs 12:30
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    30And this thing became a sin; for the people went [to worship] before the one, even unto Dan.

  • Mic 1:5
    70%

    5For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?

  • Jer 5:7
    70%

    7How can I pardon thee? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots' houses.

  • Hos 11:2
    70%

    2The more [the prophets] called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

  • Hos 8:10
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    10Yea, though they hire among the nations, now will I gather them; and they begin to be diminished by reason of the burden of the king of princes.

  • Hos 12:14
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    14Ephraim hath provoked to anger most bitterly: therefore shall his blood be left upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.

  • 1 Kgs 14:16
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    16And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he hath sinned, and wherewith he hath made Israel to sin.

  • Hos 10:8-9
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    8The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

    9O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood; the battle against the children of iniquity doth not overtake them in Gibeah.

  • 2 Kgs 23:15
    70%

    15Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he brake down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

  • Jer 11:10
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    10They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they are gone after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
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    11Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot, and led Judah astray.

  • Hos 11:12
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    12Ephraim compasseth me about with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the Holy One.

  • Ezek 44:12
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    12Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and became a stumblingblock of iniquity unto the house of Israel; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, saith the Lord Jehovah, and they shall bear their iniquity.

  • Hos 5:9
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    9Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.

  • Ezek 23:30
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    30These things shall be done unto thee, for that thou hast played the harlot after the nations, and because thou art polluted with their idols.

  • 2 Kgs 17:21
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    21For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drove Israel from following Jehovah, and made them sin a great sin.