Hosea 10:15

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“Thus it will be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness. When the day dawns, the king of Israel will be utterly cut off.”

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BSBPD

“Thus it will be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness. When the day dawns, the king of Israel will be utterly cut off.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“So shall Beth–el do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“So shall Beth-el do unto you because of your great wickedness: at daybreak shall the king of Israel be utterly cut off.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Thus hath Beth-El done to you, Because of the evil of your wickedness, In the dawn cut off utterly is a king of Israel!”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Hosea 10:15 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Isaiah 16:14And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”
  2. Hosea 10:3Surely now they will say, “We have no king, for we do not revere the LORD. What can a king do for us?”
  3. Hosea 10:5The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn with its idolatrous priests— those who rejoiced in its glory— for it has been taken from them into exile.
  4. Hosea 10:7Samaria will be carried off with her king like a twig on the surface of the water.
  5. Amos 7:9The high places of Isaac will be deserted, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with My sword.”
  6. Romans 7:13Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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