Hosea 10:8

The high places also of Aven, the chattat Yisroel, 1 shall be made shmad; 1 the kotz (thorn) and the dardar (thistle) shall come up on their mizbechot; 1 and they shall say to the mountains: Cover us; 1 and to the hills: Fall on us. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

In Context

7As for Shomron, 1 her melech will float off like a twig upon the surface of the mayim. 1

9O Yisroel, thou hast sinned 1 from the yamei Giv'ah; 1 there they have continued. 1 Did not milchamah (war) overtake 1 the bnei alvah (children of unruliness) in Giv'ah? 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 9:21And I took your sin, the egel which ye had made, and burned it with eish, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust; and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

1 Kings 12:30And this thing became chattat (sin); for the people went to worship before the one, even as far as Dan.

1 Kings 13:34And this thing became chattat (sin) unto the Bais Yarov'am, even to annihilate it, and to destroy it from off the face of ha'adamah.

2 Kings 23:15Moreover the mizbe'ach that was at Beit-El, and the high place which Yarov'am ben Nevat, who caused Yisroel to sin, had made, both that mizbe'ach and the high place did he break down, burn the high place, did grind it to powder, did burn the Asherah.

2 Chronicles 34:5And he burned the atzmot of the Kohanim upon their mizbechot, and made tahor Yehudah and Yerushalayim.

Isaiah 2:21To go into the clefts of the rocks, 1 and into the tops of the crags 1 before pachad (terror) of Hashem, 1 and for the hadar of His majesty, 1 when He ariseth to shake ha'aretz. 1

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 →

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