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Hosea Chapter 8

Hosea
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Hosea

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In this chapter the prophet Hosea condemns Israel’s worship of Baal and its moral decay, urging them to return to the true God. He describes how the people have turned away from God and are filled with idolatry and injustice. The chapter calls for repentance and a return to faithful worship.

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(1) Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
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Hosea 5:8Isaiah 18:3Isaiah 58:1Jeremiah 4:5Jeremiah 6:1Jeremiah 51:27Ezekiel 7:14Ezekiel 33:3Ezekiel 33:4Ezekiel 33:5Ezekiel 33:6Joel 2:1

Related verses (shared words)

Leviticus 26:42II Kings 23:3Jeremiah 34:18

(2) Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.
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Hosea 5:15Hosea 7:13Hosea 7:14II Kings 10:16II Kings 10:29Psalms 78:34Psalms 78:35Psalms 78:36Psalms 78:37Isaiah 48:1Isaiah 48:2Jeremiah 7:4

(3) Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
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Psalms 36:3Psalms 81:10Psalms 81:11Amos 1:11I Timothy 5:12Leviticus 26:36Deuteronomy 28:25Lamentations 3:66Lamentations 4:19

(4) They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
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I Kings 12:16I Kings 12:17I Kings 12:18I Kings 12:19I Kings 12:20II Kings 15:10II Kings 15:11II Kings 15:12II Kings 15:13II Kings 15:14II Kings 15:15II Kings 15:16

Related verses (shared words)

Numbers 7:84Psalms 68:27Exodus 38:17Isaiah 2:20Isaiah 31:7

(5) Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
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Hosea 8:6Hosea 10:5Isaiah 45:20Acts 7:41Deuteronomy 32:22II Kings 17:16II Kings 17:17II Kings 17:18II Kings 17:21II Kings 17:22II Kings 17:23Proverbs 1:22

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Numbers 14:11II Chronicles 25:10Isaiah 5:25

(6) For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
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Psalms 106:19Psalms 106:20Psalms 115:4Psalms 115:5Psalms 115:6Psalms 115:7Psalms 115:8Psalms 135:15Psalms 135:16Psalms 135:17Psalms 135:18Isaiah 44:9

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Isaiah 8:9Jeremiah 50:2Ecclesiastes 12:6II Kings 6:25Jeremiah 51:22Jeremiah 51:23

(7) For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
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Hosea 10:12Job 4:8Proverbs 22:8Ecclesiastes 5:16Galatians 6:7Isaiah 17:11Jeremiah 12:13Hosea 7:9Deuteronomy 28:33Judges 6:3Judges 6:4Judges 6:5

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Leviticus 26:4Leviticus 26:20Isaiah 5:10Ezekiel 34:27Romans 6:13I Kings 19:11

(8) Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
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II Kings 17:1II Kings 17:2II Kings 17:3II Kings 17:4II Kings 17:5II Kings 17:6II Kings 18:11Jeremiah 50:17Jeremiah 51:34Lamentations 2:2Lamentations 2:5Lamentations 2:16

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Leviticus 11:32Jeremiah 22:28Jeremiah 48:38

(9) For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
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Hosea 5:13Hosea 7:11II Kings 15:19Ezekiel 23:5Ezekiel 23:6Ezekiel 23:7Ezekiel 23:8Ezekiel 23:9Job 39:5Job 39:6Job 39:7Job 39:8

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Job 39:5II Kings 17:4Numbers 22:23Judges 12:4Isaiah 11:13

(10) Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.
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Hosea 10:10Ezekiel 16:37Ezekiel 23:9Ezekiel 23:10Ezekiel 23:22Ezekiel 23:23Ezekiel 23:24Ezekiel 23:25Ezekiel 23:26Ezekiel 23:46Ezekiel 23:47Haggai 2:6

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Psalms 68:27Proverbs 6:10Proverbs 24:33Jeremiah 4:30I Corinthians 7:30II Corinthians 7:8

(11) Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.
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Hosea 10:1Hosea 10:2Hosea 10:8Hosea 12:11Isaiah 10:10Isaiah 10:11Deuteronomy 4:28Jeremiah 16:13

Related verses (shared words)

II Kings 11:18II Kings 23:12II Chronicles 23:17II Chronicles 30:14Jeremiah 11:13Judges 12:4

(12) I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
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Deuteronomy 4:6Deuteronomy 4:7Deuteronomy 4:8Nehemiah 9:13Nehemiah 9:14Psalms 119:18Psalms 147:19Psalms 147:20Proverbs 22:20Ezekiel 20:11Romans 3:1Romans 7:12

(13) They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
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Jeremiah 7:21Jeremiah 7:22Jeremiah 7:23Hosea 5:6Hosea 9:4Hosea 12:11I Samuel 15:22Proverbs 21:27Isaiah 1:11Jeremiah 14:10Amos 5:22I Corinthians 11:20

Related verses (shared words)

I Kings 8:64Numbers 29:39II Chronicles 29:31Song of Solomon 6:13Leviticus 7:29Deuteronomy 12:6

(14) For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
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Hosea 13:6Deuteronomy 32:18Psalms 106:21Isaiah 17:10Jeremiah 2:32Jeremiah 3:21Jeremiah 23:27Isaiah 29:23Isaiah 43:21Ephesians 2:10I Kings 12:31I Kings 16:31

Related verses (shared words)

Amos 1:4Amos 1:7Amos 1:10Amos 1:12Amos 2:2Amos 2:5

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