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Hosea 6:10

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I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
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  1. Hosea 5:3Rank 1 from verse 10
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    3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.

  2. Jeremiah 23:14Rank 2 from verse 10
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    14I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

  3. Ezekiel 23:5Rank 3 from verse 10
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    5And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,

  4. Jeremiah 3:6Rank 4 from verse 10
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    6¶ The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

  5. Jeremiah 5:30–31Rank 5 from verse 10
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    30¶ A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;

    31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

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Hosea 6:10

COMBINED MEANING

horrible

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Exciting or tending to excite horror; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous.

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

COMBINED MEANING

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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house

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Sense 1: A building or dwelling. Sense 2: The people of a household or family. Sense 3: A lineage or family line. Sense 4: As a verb, to shelter, lodge, or provide a dwelling for.

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Israel

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The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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whoredom

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Sense 1: Sexual immorality or prostitution. Sense 2: By figure in passages that make the application, idolatrous or covenant unfaithfulness.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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9And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

10I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

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11Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

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