Hosea 11:2

In 11 translations

BSB

But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.LXX; Hebrew The more they called them, the more they went from them.

KJV

As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

WEB

They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.

ASV

The more the prophets called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

LSV

They have called to them correctly, || They have gone from before them, || They sacrifice to lords, || And make incense to carved images.

YLT

They have called to them rightly, They have gone from before them, To lords they do sacrifice, And to graven images they make perfume.

DBY

As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baals, and burned incense to graven images.

DRC

As they called them, they went away from before their face: they offered victims to Baalim, and sacrificed to idols.

GNV

They called them, but they went thus from them: they sacrificed vnto Baalim, and burnt incense to images.

JPS

The more they called them, the more they went from them; they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and offered to graven images.

LXXE

As I called them, so they departed from my presence: they sacrificed to Baalim, and burnt incense to graven images.

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WLC

קָרְא֖וּ לָהֶ֑ם כֵּ֚ן הָלְכ֣וּ מִפְּנֵיהֶ֔ם לַבְּעָלִ֣ים יְזַבֵּ֔חוּ וְלַפְּסִלִ֖ים יְקַטֵּרֽוּן׃

LXX-Br

Καθὼς μετεκάλεσα αὐτούς, οὕτως ἀπῴχοντο ἐκ προσώπου μου· αὐτοὶ τοῖς Βααλεὶμ ἔθυον, καὶ τοῖς γλυπτοῖς ἐθυμίων.

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• Hosea 2:13I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.
• Jeremiah 18:15Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.
• Isaiah 65:7both for your iniquities and for those of your fathers,” says the LORD. “Because they burned incense on the mountains and scorned Me on the hills, I will measure into their laps full payment for their former deeds.”
• John 3:19And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
• Acts 7:51You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
• Hosea 13:1–2When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal, and he died. Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their…
• 2 Kings 17:13–16Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and…
• Hosea 11:7My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them.
• Nehemiah 9:30You were patient with them for many years, and Your Spirit admonished them through Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.
• Jeremiah 35:13“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Go and tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem: ‘Will you not accept discipline and obey My words?’ declares the LORD.
• Luke 13:34O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
• 1 Kings 12:33On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had set up in Bethel. So he ordained a feast for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and…
• Jeremiah 44:15–17Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, and all the women standing by—a great assembly—along with all the people living in the land of Egypt and in Pathros, said to Jeremiah, “As…
• 1 Kings 16:31–32And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then proceeded to serve and worship Baal. First, Ahab set…
• 1 Samuel 8:7–9And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king. Just as they have done from the day I brought…
• 2 Chronicles 36:15–16Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place. But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words…

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