Hosea 10:8
And the altars of Aven, the sins of Israel, shall be taken away: thorns and thistles shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
7Samaria has cast off her king as a twig on the surface of the water.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 9:21And your sin which ye had made, even the calf, I took, and burned it with fire, and pounded it and ground it down till it became fine; and it became like dust, and I cast the dust into the brook that descended from the mountain.
1 Kings 12:30And this thing became a sin; and the people went before one as far as Dan, and left the house of the Lord.
1 Kings 13:34And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to its destruction and its removal from the face of the earth.
2 Kings 23:15Also the high altar in Bethel, which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that high altar he tore down, and broke in pieces the stones of it, and reduced it to powder, and burned the grove.
2 Chronicles 34:5And he burned the bones of the priests upon the altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
Isaiah 2:21to enter into the caverns of the solid rock, and into the clefts of the rocks, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 10:2-9
Degeneracy of Israel; Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 730.) 1 Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images. 2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images. 3 For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the Lord ; what then should a king do to us? 4 They have spoken… Read the whole commentary →