Hosea 11:2

The more they were called, 1 the more they went away from me. 1 They sacrificed to the Baals 1 and burned incense to idols. + 11:2 Some ancient and most modern versions have they went away from me . The Hebrew text has they went away from them . 1

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In The King James Version

As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

In Context

1“When Israel was a young man I loved him, 1 and I called my son out of Egypt. 1

3Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk. 1 It was I who lifted them up by their arms, 1 but they did not know that I cared for them. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:2Moses called to all Israel and said to them, “You have seen everything that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his servants, and to all his land—

Judges 3:7The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh and forgot Yahweh their God. They worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs.

1 Samuel 8:7Yahweh said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in everything they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.

1 Kings 16:31It was to Ahab a trivial thing to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, so he took as his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians; he went and worshiped Baal and bowed down to him.

2 Kings 17:13Yet Yahweh had testified to Israel and to Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, and be careful to keep all the law I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”

2 Chronicles 36:15Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, sent word to them by his messengers again and again, because he had compassion on his people and on the place where he lives.

Matthew Henry on Hosea 11:2-8

God's Goodness to Israel; The Ingratitude of Israel; God's Displeasure with Israel. ( b. c. 730.) 1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. 2 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. 3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them. 4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat… Read the whole commentary →

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