Hosea 6:10

Hosea · Old Testament · Chapter 6

“I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.”Hosea 6:10

What Does Hosea 6:10 Mean?

Hosea 6:10 is found in the book of Hosea, chapter 6, verse 10 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 17 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.

Cross-References (17)

These passages are connected to Hosea 6:10 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.

Jeremiah 5:30“A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;”Hosea 5:3“I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.”Jeremiah 18:13“Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.”Jeremiah 23:14“I 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.”Ezekiel 23:7“Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.”Jeremiah 3:6“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.”Ezekiel 23:5“And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,”Exodus 32:9“And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:”Deuteronomy 9:13“Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:”1 Kings 12:8“But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:”1 Kings 15:30“Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.”2 Kings 17:7“For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,”Isaiah 28:1“Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!”Jeremiah 2:12“Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.”Hosea 4:17“Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.”Micah 1:1“The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.”Hosea 4:11“Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.”

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