Hosea 6:10
I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel. Whoredom is there in Ephraim; Israel is defiled.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
11Also, O Judah, there is a harvest appointed for thee when I bring back the captivity of my people.
Cross References
1 Kings 12:8But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men that grew up with him, who stood before him.
2 Kings 17:7And it was so, because the sons of Israel had sinned against LORD their God who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
Jeremiah 3:6Moreover LORD said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have thou seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.
Jeremiah 18:13Therefore thus says LORD: Ask ye now among the nations, Who has heard such things? The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.
Ezekiel 23:5And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine, and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbors,
Hosea 4:12My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declares to them, for the spirit of whoredom has caused them to err, and they have played the harlot, [departing] from under their God.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 6:5-11
Promises and Expostulations; The Crimes of the People. ( b. c. 758.) 4 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. 5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth. 6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there… Read the whole commentary →