Hosea 13:2

The people keep sinning more, crafting silver idols and even offering human sacrifice while kissing calf-images. It exposes the deepening corruption of their idolatry.

Cross-references · 26

• Isa 46:6They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.
• 1 Kgs 19:18Nevertheless, I have reserved seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”
• Jer 10:4They adorn it with silver and gold and fasten it with hammer and nails, so that it will not totter.
• Isa 44:17–20From the rest he makes a god, his graven image. He bows down to it and worships; he prays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god.”
• Hos 2:8For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold—which they crafted for Baal.
• Hab 2:18–19What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
• 2 Tim 3:13while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
• Rom 1:22–25Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,
• Rom 11:4And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
• 2 Chr 33:23but he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; instead, Amon increased his guilt.
• 1 Sam 10:1Then Samuel took a flask of oil, poured it on Saul’s head, kissed him, and said, “Has not the LORD anointed you ruler over His inheritance?
• Isa 1:5Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.
• Isa 45:20Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.
• Hos 8:6For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.
• Ps 2:12Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and you perish in your rebellion, when His wrath ignites in an instant. Blessed are all who take refuge in Him.
• Ps 135:17–18they have ears, but cannot hear; nor is there breath in their mouths.
• Hos 8:4They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.
• Hos 11:6A sword will flash through their cities; it will destroy the bars of their gates and consume them in their own plans.
• Num 32:14Now behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.
• 2 Chr 28:13“You must not bring the captives here,” they said, “for you are proposing to bring guilt upon us from the LORD and to add to our sins and our guilt. For our guilt is great, and fierce anger is upon Israel.”
• Rom 2:5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
• Ps 115:4–8Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
• Hos 10:1Israel 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.
• Isa 46:8Remember this and be brave; take it to heart, you transgressors!
• Isa 30:1“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.
• Jer 10:8But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

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