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Hosea 10:2–4

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Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the Lord; what then should a king do to us?
They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
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From verse 2

  1. 1 Kings 18:21Rank 1 from verse 2
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    21And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

  2. Micah 5:13Rank 2 from verse 2
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    13Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.

  3. James 4:4Rank 3 from verse 2
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    4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

  4. James 1:8Rank 4 from verse 2
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    8A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

  5. Luke 16:13Rank 5 from verse 2
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    13¶ No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

  6. Revelation 3:15–16Rank 6 from verse 2
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    15I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

    16So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

  7. Zephaniah 1:5Rank 7 from verse 2
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    5And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the Lord, and that swear by Malcham;

  8. 1 Samuel 5:4Rank 8 from verse 2
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    4And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.

  9. Hosea 10:5–8Rank 9 from verse 2
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    5The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.

    6It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

    7As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.

    8The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

  10. Hosea 13:16Rank 10 from verse 2
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    16Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

  11. Hosea 7:8Rank 11 from verse 2
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    8Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

  12. Hosea 8:5–6Rank 12 from verse 2
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    5¶ Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

    6For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

  13. Isaiah 44:18Rank 13 from verse 2
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    18They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

  14. Jeremiah 43:13Rank 14 from verse 2
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    13He shall break also the images of Beth-shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.

  15. Matthew 6:24Rank 15 from verse 2
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    24¶ No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

  16. Zechariah 13:2Rank 16 from verse 2
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    2¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

  17. 1 John 2:15Rank 17 from verse 2
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    15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

  18. 2 Thessalonians 2:11–12Rank 18 from verse 2
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    11And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

    12That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

From verse 3

  1. Hosea 10:15Rank 1 from verse 3
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    15So shall Beth-el do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.

  2. Hosea 10:7Rank 2 from verse 3
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    7As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.

  3. Hosea 13:11Rank 3 from verse 3
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    11I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.

  4. Genesis 49:10Rank 4 from verse 3
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    10The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

  5. Hosea 3:4Rank 5 from verse 3
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    4For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:

  6. John 19:15Rank 6 from verse 3
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    15But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Cæsar.

  7. Micah 4:9Rank 7 from verse 3
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    9Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counseller perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.

  8. Hosea 11:5Rank 8 from verse 3
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    5¶ He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

From verse 4

  1. Amos 5:7Rank 1 from verse 4
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    7Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

  2. Amos 6:12Rank 2 from verse 4
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    12¶ Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

  3. Hosea 4:2Rank 3 from verse 4
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    2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

  4. 2 Kings 17:3–4Rank 4 from verse 4
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    3¶ Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.

    4And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.

  5. Deuteronomy 29:18Rank 5 from verse 4
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    18Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

  6. Ezekiel 17:13–19Rank 6 from verse 4
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    13And hath taken of the king’s seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:

    14That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.

    15But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?

    16As I live, saith the Lord God, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.

    17Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:

    18Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.

    19Therefore thus saith the Lord God; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.

  7. 2 Timothy 3:3Rank 7 from verse 4
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    3Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

  8. Acts 8:23Rank 8 from verse 4
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    23For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.

  9. Hebrews 12:15Rank 9 from verse 4
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    15Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

  10. Hosea 6:7Rank 10 from verse 4
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    7But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

  11. Isaiah 5:7Rank 11 from verse 4
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    7For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

  12. Isaiah 59:13–15Rank 12 from verse 4
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    13In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

    14And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

    15Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

  13. Revelation 8:10–11Rank 13 from verse 4
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    10And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;

    11And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

  14. Romans 1:31Rank 14 from verse 4
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    31Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

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Hosea 10:2

COMBINED MEANING

heart

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Sense 1: The bodily organ. Sense 2: The inward person: the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

break

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1. To separate, fracture, burst, or open. 2. To interrupt or violate. 3. To subdue. 4. To burst forth.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

spoil

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Sense 1: Goods or captives taken from an enemy. Sense 2: As a verb, to plunder, rob, strip, ruin, or deprive of what is possessed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

images

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Likenesses, representations, or visible forms; often idols when made or used as objects of worship.

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Hosea 10:3

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for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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say

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Sense 1: To speak, declare, tell, or express. Sense 2: What is said.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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king

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A sovereign ruler; one exercising royal authority over a kingdom.

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should

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A verb expressing duty, propriety, expectation, intention, purpose, condition, appointed outcome, or a future event viewed from another time or statement.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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us

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The first-person plural object pronoun, referring to the speaker together with one or more others as recipients or objects of an action or relation.

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Hosea 10:4

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spoken

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1. Uttered, said, declared, addressed, or communicated in words. 2. In 'spoken of,' mentioned, described, or referred to. 3. In 'spoken for,' addressed by request or commendation on another's behalf; in a marriage setting, sought as a spouse. 4. In 'spoken against' or 'evil spoken of,' opposed, contradicted, denounced, or reviled.

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words

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Spoken or written expressions, sayings, statements, messages, commands, promises, reports, or units of meaningful speech.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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swearing

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Present-participial or verbal-noun form of swear, meaning to make a solemn oath or binding affirmation.

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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covenant

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Sense 1: A binding agreement, promise, pledge, or appointed order. Sense 2: The stated words, terms, testimony, or written record of such an agreement or promise.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

judgment

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The act, authority, process, cause, or result of judging; discernment, legal hearing, verdict, ordinance, justice, government, vindication, condemnation, or punishment.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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10:1ISRAEL 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.

10:2Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

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10:3For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the Lord; what then should a king do to us?

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10:4They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

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10:5The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.

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