Hosea 2:8 “For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new win…”

Hosea 2:8

For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold— which they crafted for Baal.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.

World English Bible

For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

American Standard Version

For she did not know that I gave her the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied unto her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

Geneva Bible 1599

Nowe she did not knowe that I gaue her corne, and wine, and oyle, and multiplied her siluer and golde, which they bestowed vpon Baal.

Darby Translation

And she did not know that I had given her the corn and the new wine and the oil, and had multiplied to her the silver and gold, which they employed for Baal.

Young's Literal Translation

And she knew not that I had given to her, The corn, and the new wine, and the oil. Yea, silver I did multiply to her, And the gold they prepared for Baal.

Bible in Basic English

For she had no knowledge that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, increasing her silver and gold which they gave to the Baal.

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Cross references

“she”

Isaiah 1:3 Romans 1:28 Habakkuk 1:16 Acts 17:23–25

Isaiah 1:3 · BSB

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”

Romans 1:28 · BSB

Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

Habakkuk 1:16 · BSB

Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich.

Acts 17:23–25 · BSB

For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.

“her corn”

Ezekiel 16:16–19 Hosea 2:5 Judges 9:27 Jeremiah 7:18 Daniel 5:23 Luke 15:13

Ezekiel 16:16–19 · BSB

You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them you prostituted yourself. Such things should not have happened; never should they have occurred!

Hosea 2:5 · BSB

For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’

Judges 9:27 · BSB

And after they had gone out into the fields, gathered grapes from their vineyards, and trodden them, they held a festival and went into the house of their god; and as they ate and drank, they cursed Abimelech.

Jeremiah 7:18 · BSB

The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.

Daniel 5:23 · BSB

Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and…

Luke 15:13 · BSB

After a few days, the younger son got everything together and journeyed to a distant country, where he squandered his wealth in wild living.

“wine”

Hosea 4:11 Isaiah 24:7–9

Hosea 4:11 · BSB

to promiscuity, wine, and new wine, which take away understanding.

Isaiah 24:7–9 · BSB

The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.

“which they prepared for Baal”

Hosea 8:4 Hosea 13:2 Exodus 32:2–4 Judges 17:1–5 Isaiah 46:6

Hosea 8:4 · BSB

They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.

Hosea 13:2 · BSB

Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”

Exodus 32:2–4 · BSB

So Aaron told them, “Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me.”

Judges 17:1–5 · BSB

Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim

Isaiah 46:6 · BSB

They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.

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

In context

7She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.’

9Therefore I will take back My grain in its time and My new wine in its season; I will take away My wool and linen, which were given to cover her nakedness.

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