Hosea 10:2 “Their hearts are devious; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD wil…”

Hosea 10:2

Their hearts are devious; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and demolish their sacred pillars.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

World English Bible

Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.

American Standard Version

Their heart is divided; now shall they be found guilty: he will smite their altars, he will destroy their pillars.

Geneva Bible 1599

Their heart is deuided: nowe shall they be founde faultie: he shall breake downe their altars: he shall destroy their images.

Darby Translation

Their heart is divided; now shall they be found guilty: he will break down their altars, he will destroy their statues.

Young's Literal Translation

Their heart hath been divided, now they are guilty, He doth break down their altars, He doth destroy their standing-pillars.

Bible in Basic English

Their mind is taken away; now they will be made waste: he will have their altars broken down, he will give their pillars to destruction.

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Cross references

“Their heart is divided”

1 Kings 18:21 James 4:4 Zephaniah 1:5 Luke 16:13 James 1:8 Hosea 7:8

1 Kings 18:21 · BSB

Then Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him. But if Baal is God, follow him.” But the people did not answer a word.

James 4:4 · BSB

You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.

Zephaniah 1:5 · BSB

those who bow on the rooftops to worship the host of heaven, those who bow down and swear by the LORD but also swear by Milcom,

Luke 16:13 · BSB

No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

James 1:8 · BSB

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Hosea 7:8 · BSB

Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is an unturned cake.

“break down”

Micah 5:13 Hosea 10:5–8 1 Samuel 5:4 Jeremiah 43:13 Zechariah 13:2 Hosea 8:5

Micah 5:13 · BSB

I will also cut off the carved images and sacred pillars from among you, so that you will no longer bow down to the work of your own hands.

Hosea 10:5–8 · BSB

The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn over it with its idolatrous priests— those who rejoiced in its glory— for it has been taken from them into exile.

1 Samuel 5:4 · BSB

But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD, with his head and his hands broken off and lying on the threshold. Only the torso remained.

Jeremiah 43:13 · BSB

He will demolish the sacred pillars of the temple of the sun in the land of Egypt, and he will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.’”

Zechariah 13:2 · BSB

And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.

Hosea 8:5 · BSB

He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

Also

Hosea 13:16

Hosea 13:16 · BSB

Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Israel was a luxuriant vine, yielding fruit for himself. The more his fruit increased, the more he increased the altars. The better his land produced, the better he made the sacred pillars.

3Surely now they will say, “We have no king, for we do not revere the LORD. What can a king do for us?”

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