Hosea 9:10

I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness, and I saw their fathers as an early watchman in a fig tree: they went in to Baal-peor, and were shamefully estranged, and the abominable became as the beloved.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 corrupted themselves according to the days of the hill: he will remember their iniquities, he will take vengeance on their sins.

11Ephraim has flown away as a bird; their glories from the birth, and the travail, and the conception.

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Cross References

Numbers 13:23And they came to the Valley of the Cluster and surveyed it; and they cut down thence a bough and one cluster of grapes upon it, and bore it on staffs, and they took of the pomegranates and the figs.

Numbers 18:13All the firstfruits that are in their land, whatsoever they shall offer to the Lord, shall be thine: every clean person in thy house shall eat them.

Numbers 25:3And Israel consecrated themselves to Baal-peor; and the Lord was very angry with Israel.

Deuteronomy 32:10He maintained him in the wilderness, 1 In burning thirst and a dry land: 1 He led him about and instructed him, 1 And kept him as the apple of an eye. 1

Judges 6:32And he called it in that day Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead thereby, because his altar has been thrown down.

2 Kings 17:11And burned incense there on all high places, as the nations did whom the Lord removed from before them, and dealt with familiar spirits, and they carved images to provoke the Lord to anger.

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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