Hosea 10:8 Cross References - Thomson

⁸ The altars of On, the stumbling blocks of Israel shall indeed be taken away; thorns and thistles shall grow on their altars, and they will say to the hills, cover us, and to the mounts, Fall upon us.

²¹ Now I had taken your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire; and having stamped, and ground it, till it was very fine, and like dust, I threw the dust into the torrent which ran down out of the mount.

²⁸ Therefore the king took counsel and went and made two calves of gold, and said to the people, Rest satisfied in respect to your going up to Jerusalem. Behold these are thy gods, Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. ²⁹ And he placed one of them in Baithel and the other he sent to Dan. ³⁰ And this became an occasion of sinning. For the people went before the one even to Dan, and they forsook the house of the Lord,

² and by a word of the Lord cried to the altar and said, Altar! altar! Thus saith the Lord, Behold a son shall be born to the house of David; his name shall be Josias, and he will burn upon thee the priests of the high places, who burn incense on thee: and upon thee he will burn the bones of men.

³⁴ And this became a sin to the house of Jeroboam, and occasioned its destruction and utter removal from the face of the earth.

¹⁶ [Omitted]

¹⁵ he then tore down also the altar which was at Baithel, that high altar which was erected by Jeroboam, son of Nabat, who had caused Israel to sin. Even that high altar he tore down and broke the stones thereof to pieces and pounded them to dust, and burned the bower.

¹ And when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out through the cities of Juda, and broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the arbours, and demolished the high places, and the mounts, throughout all Judea and Benjamin, and out of all Ephraim and Manasses, till they were utterly destroyed. Then all Israel returned, every one to his possession and to their cities.

⁵ and burned the bones of the priests on the altars. And when he had cleansed Juda and Jerusalem, ⁶ he proceeded on through the cities of Manasses, and Ephraim, and Symeon, and Nephthaleim, and the places around them, ⁷ and tore down the altars, and the bowers, and chopped to pieces the idols. And having demolished all the high places in all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

¹⁹ carrying them into caverns and clefts of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, from the tremendous presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to crush the lands.

¹³ In this land of my people shall spring up the thorn and the briar, and joy shall be taken from every dwelling.

¹³ And in their cities shall spring up brakes; and brambles shall be its fortresses: and they shall be cots for Sirens, and for the ostrich's court.

¹³ They sacrificed on the tops of the mountains, and on the hills they burned incense, under an oak and a beech and a shady tree, because shade is good. For this cause your daughters will commit whoredom and your wives adultery;

¹⁵ As for thee, Israel, continue not in ignorance; and thou Juda go not to Galgala. Either go not up to the house of On, or swear not by the living Lord.

⁸ [p] Sound a trumpet on the mounts; raise a shout on the high places; proclaim in the house of On, Benjamin is confounded.

⁶ For this cause behold they are going from the misery of Egypt, and Memphis shall receive them and Machmas shall bury them. As for their silver, destruction shall inherit it. Thorns shall be in their habitations.

² They divided their hearts; they shall now be destroyed. He will demolish their altars. Their pillars shall be in extreme distress.

⁵ Let the inhabitants of Samaria sojourn with the calf of the house of On, because its people mourned for it. Now as they provoked it they should rejoice at its glory; that it hath been removed from them.

¹⁴ They who swear by the atonement of Samaria, and they who say, Thy God, Dan, liveth: thy God, Bersabee, liveth, shall indeed fall and shall never rise any more.

⁵ [J] All this is on account of the impiety of Jacob, and for the sin of the house of Israel. What is the impiety of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the sin of the house of Juda? Is it not Jerusalem?

¹³ Was it the inhabitant of Lachis? She is a leader to sin for the daughter of Sion. Because in thee have been found the impieties of Israel,

³⁰ Then will they begin to say to the mountains, Fall upon us: and to the hills, Cover us.

¹⁶ saying to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of him who is sitting on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,

⁶ And in those days the men will seek death and shall not find it; and they will earnestly desire to die and death will flee from them.