Hosea 9:10

As grapes in a wilderness I found Israel, || As the first-fruit in a fig tree, at its beginning, I have seen your fathers, || They have gone in [to] Ba‘al-Peor, || And are separated to a shameful thing, || And have become abominable like their love.

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In The King James Version

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

In Context

9They have gone deep—have done corruptly, || As [in] the days of Gibeah, || He remembers their iniquity, He inspects their sins.

11Ephraim [is] as a bird, their glory flies away, without birth, and without womb, and without conception.

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Cross References

Numbers 13:23and they come to the Brook of Eshcol, and cut down a branch and one cluster of grapes there, and they carry it on a staff by two, also [some] of the pomegranates, and of the figs.

Numbers 18:13The first-fruits of all that [is] in their land, which they bring to YHWH, are yours; every clean one in your house eats it;

Numbers 25:3and Israel is joined to Ba‘al-Peor, and the anger of YHWH burns against Israel.

Deuteronomy 32:10He finds him in a land—a desert, || And in a void—a howling wilderness, || He turns him around—He causes him to understand—He keeps him as the apple of His eye.

Judges 6:32And he calls him, on that day, Jerubba‘al, saying, “The Ba‘al pleads against him, because he has broken down his altar.”

2 Kings 17:11and make incense there in all high places, like the nations that YHWH removed from their presence, and do evil things to provoke YHWH,

Matthew Henry on Hosea 9:8-11

Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 740.) 7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred. 8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God. 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins. 10 I found… Read the whole commentary →

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