Hosea 10:8
So shall the high places of Aven, be destroyed, the sin of Israel, Thorn and prickle, shall come up on their altars,—Therefore shall they say to the mountains, Cover us, and to the hills, Fall on us.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
7Silenced is Samaria: her king, is as a chip on the face of the waters,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 9:21And your sin which ye had made even the calf, took I and burned it up with fire, and pounded it very small, until it was fine as dust,—then cast I the dust thereof into the torrent that descended out of the mountain.
1 Kings 12:30And this thing became a sin,—and the people went before the one, as far as Dan.
1 Kings 13:34And so this thing became the sin of the house of Jeroboam,—that it should be both taken away and destroyed, from off the face of the ground.
2 Kings 23:15moreover also, the altar that was in Bethel, the high place which Jeroboam son of Nebat made, wherewith he caused, Israel, to sin,—even that altar, and the high place, brake he down,—and burned the high place, crushing it to powder, and burned a Sacred Stem.
2 Chronicles 34:5And, the bones of the priests, burned he upon their altars,—and so purified Judah and Jerusalem:
Isaiah 2:21That he may enter into the clefts of the rocks, and into the fissures of the crags,—Because of the terribleness of Yahweh, And for his majestic splendour, When he ariseth to shake 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 →