Hosea 13:2
And now they have sinned more and more : and they have made to themselves a molten thing of their silver as the likeness of idols: the whole is the work of craftsmen: to these that say: Sacrifice men, ye that adore calves.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
1When Ephraim spoke, a horror seized Israel: and he sinned in Baal and died.
Cross References
Numbers 32:14And behold, said he, you are risen up instead of your fathers, the increase and offspring of sinful men, to augment the fury of the Lord against Israel.
1 Kings 19:18And I will leave me seven thousand men in Israel, whose knees have not been bowed before Baal, and every mouth that hath not worshipped him kissing the hands.
2 Chronicles 33:23And he did not humble himself before the Lord, as Manasses his father had humbled himself, but committed far greater sins.
Psalms 115:4and I called upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, deliver my soul.
Isaiah 1:5For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad.
Isaiah 44:11Behold, all the partakers thereof shall be confounded: for the makers are men: they shall all assemble together, they shall stand and fear, and shall be confounded together.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 13:2-5
Reproofs and Threatenings. ( b. c. 722.) 1 When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died. 2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves. 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the… Read the whole commentary →