Hosea · 15 verses

Hosea 10

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A calf is deported as tribute to Assyria, while the people who celebrated its glory mourn its disappearance.

Fruitful vines and a travelling calfvv. 1–8

Israel flourishes like a luxuriant vine, but every increase in fruit funds another altar and every better harvest improves the sacred pillars. The hearts beneath this abundance are devious, so the LORD breaks the whole arrangement down. Then comes the chapter’s wonderfully grim procession: Samaria fears for the calf of Beth-aven, its priests mourn, and the calf is carried to Assyria as tribute to the great king. Ephraim and Israel are left ashamed, while Samaria herself goes off with her king like a twig on water. The high places of Aven are destined for thorns, and the mountains and hills are asked to perform the rather extreme service of hiding the people from what follows.

The furrows turn hardvv. 9–15

The story turns back to Gibeah, where Israel’s old sin is met by the memory of battle and by nations gathered for bondage. Ephraim, once a well-trained heifer enjoying the threshing, is fitted with a yoke; Judah plows and Jacob breaks the hard ground. There is still a brief command to sow righteousness and break up unplowed ground, but the next image is already a harvest of wickedness, injustice, and lies. Battle roars against the fortresses, with Shalman’s devastation of Beth-arbel offered as the comparison: mothers and children are dashed to pieces together. Bethel is told that its great wickedness will bring the same fate, and at dawn Israel’s king will be cut off.

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Hos 10:1 Israel was a luxuriant vine, yielding fruit for himself. The more his fruit increased, the more he increased the altars. The better his land produced, the better he made the sacred pillars.
Hos 10:2Their hearts are devious; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and demolish their sacred pillars.
Hos 10:3Surely now they will say, “We have no king, for we do not revere the LORD. What can a king do for us?”
Hos 10:4They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.
Hos 10:5The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn over it with its idolatrous priests—those who rejoiced in its glory—for it has been taken from them into exile.
Hos 10:6Yes, it will be carried to Assyria as tribute to the great king. Ephraim will be seized with shame; Israel will be ashamed of its wooden idols.
Hos 10:7 Samaria will be carried off with her king like a twig on the surface of the water.
Hos 10:8The high places of Aven will be destroyed—it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”
Hos 10:9Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel, and there you have remained. Did not the battle in Gibeah overtake the sons of iniquity?
Hos 10:10I will chasten them when I please; nations will be gathered against them to put them in bondage for their double transgression.
Hos 10:11 Ephraim is a well-trained heifer that loves to thresh; but I will place a yoke on her fair neck. I will harness Ephraim, Judah will plow, and Jacob will break the hard ground.
Hos 10:12Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
Hos 10:13You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,
Hos 10:14the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be demolished as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces along with their children.
Hos 10:15Thus it will be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness. When the day dawns, the king of Israel will be utterly cut off.

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Where this is echoed

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12 Jeremiah 4:3–4For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.
12 James 3:18Peacemakers who sow in peace reap the fruit of righteousness.
12 Isaiah 45:8Drip down, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout and righteousness spring up with it; I, the LORD, have created it.
12 Proverbs 11:18The wicked man earns an empty wage, but he who sows righteousness reaps a true reward.
12 Hosea 6:3So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.
12 Jeremiah 29:12–14Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
12 Psalms 105:4Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.
12 Ecclesiastes 11:6Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper.
8 Revelation 6:16And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.
8 Luke 23:30At that time ‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’
12 Zephaniah 2:1–3Gather yourselves, gather together, O shameful nation,
12 Luke 13:24“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.
12 Amos 5:6Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
13 Job 4:8As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
8 Isaiah 2:19Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.
13 Galatians 6:7–8Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.

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