Hosea 13:2

And now they sin more and more, 1 and have made for themselves massekhah (idol) of their kesef, 1 and atzabim according to their faculty of binah (understanding), 1 all of it the work of the craftsmen; 1 they say of them: 1 Let adam that sacrifice kiss calf-idols. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

1When Ephrayim spoke there was trembling; 1 he was exalted in Yisroel; 1 but when he became guilty in Ba'al, he died. 1

3Therefore they shall be like the anan boker (morning cloud) 1 and as the early dew that disappears, 1 like the motz (chaff) that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, 1 and as the smoke out of the window. 1

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Cross References

Numbers 32:14And, hinei, ye are risen up in the place of Avoteichem a brood of anashim chatta'im to add even more to charon af Hashem against Yisroel.

1 Kings 19:18Yet I have left me shivat alafim in Yisroel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Ba'al, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.

2 Chronicles 33:23And humbled not himself before Hashem, as Menasheh Aviv had humbled himself; but Amon increased more and more in ashmah.

Psalms 115:4Their atzabim (idols) are kesef and zahav, 1 the ma'aseh (work) of the hands of adam. 1

Isaiah 1:5Why, seeing that ye will be stricken again, 1 will ye rebel stubbornly again? 1 The kol rosh is sick, 1 and the kol levav faint. 1

Isaiah 44:11Behold, all its chaverim shall be ashamed; and the charashim (craftsmen), they are only adam; let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed 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 →

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