Hosea 11:2

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“But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.”

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BSBPD

“But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“The more the prophets called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“They have called to them rightly, They have gone from before them, To lords they do sacrifice, And to graven images they make perfume.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Hosea 11:2 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 29:2Moses summoned all Israel and proclaimed to them, “You have seen with your own eyes everything the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land.
  2. Judges 2:13for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.
  3. Judges 3:7So the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.
  4. Judges 10:6And again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and Philistines. Thus they forsook the LORD and did not serve Him.
  5. 1 Samuel 8:7And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king.
  6. 1 Kings 12:33On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had set up in Bethel. So he ordained a feast for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.
  7. 1 Kings 16:31And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then proceeded to serve and worship Baal.
  8. 1 Kings 18:19Now summon all Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel, along with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah who eat at Jezebel’s table.”
  9. 2 Kings 17:13Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”
  10. 2 Kings 17:14But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.
  11. 2 Chronicles 36:15Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place.
  12. Nehemiah 9:30You were patient with them for many years, and Your Spirit admonished them through Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.
  13. Isaiah 30:9These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.
  14. Isaiah 65:7both for your iniquities and for those of your fathers,” says the LORD. “Because they burned incense on the mountains and scorned Me on the hills, I will measure into their laps full payment for their former deeds.”
  15. Jeremiah 18:15Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.
  16. Jeremiah 35:13“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Go and tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem: ‘Will you not accept discipline and obey My words?’ declares the LORD.
  17. Jeremiah 44:5But they did not listen or incline their ears; they did not turn from their wickedness or stop burning incense to other gods.
  18. Jeremiah 44:15Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, and all the women standing by—a great assembly—along with all the people living in the land of Egypt and in Pathros, said to Jeremiah,
  19. Hosea 2:13I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.
  20. Hosea 4:17Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!
  21. Hosea 11:7My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them.
  22. Hosea 13:1When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal, and he died.
  23. Hosea 13:2Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”
  24. Zechariah 1:4Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.

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