Hosea 8:11

Israel Rejects The Good

¹⁰ Even though they hire lovers among the nations,
I will now round them up,
and they will begin to decrease in number
under the burden of the king and leaders. ¹¹ When Ephraim multiplied his altars for sin,
they became his altars for sinning.
¹² Though I were to write out for him
ten thousand points of My instruction,
they would be regarded as something strange.

Sin Offering

Ephraim

Sin

Hosea 12:11

Since Gilead is full of evil,
they will certainly come to nothing.
They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal;
even their altars will be like heaps of rocks
on the furrows of a field.

Deuteronomy 4:28

There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see, hear, eat, or smell.

Isaiah 10:10-11

As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms,
whose idols exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

Jeremiah 16:13

So I will hurl you from this land into a land that you and your fathers are not familiar with. There you will worship other gods both day and night, for I will not grant you grace.

Hosea 10:1-2

Israel is a lush vine;
it yields fruit for itself.
The more his fruit increased,
the more he increased the altars.
The better his land produced,
the better they made the sacred pillars.

Hosea 10:8

The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel,
will be destroyed;
thorns and thistles will grow over their altars.
They will say to the mountains, “Cover us!”
and to the hills, “Fall on us!”