Hosea 10:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

High places

Hosea 10:5

Hosea 4:15

Hosea 5:8

The sin

The thorn

Hosea 9:6

Isaiah 32:13

Isaiah 34:13

Their altars

They shall

General references

Luke 23:30

Bible References

High places

The residents of Samaria will have anxiety
over the calf of Beth-aven.
Indeed, its idolatrous priests rejoiced over it;
the people will mourn over it,
over its glory.
It will certainly depart from them.

Israel, if you act promiscuously,
don’t let Judah become guilty!
Do not go to Gilgal
or make a pilgrimage to Beth-aven,

and do not swear an oath: As the Lord lives!

Blow the horn in Gibeah,
the trumpet in Ramah;
raise the war cry in Beth-aven:
After you, Benjamin!

The sin

I took the sinful calf you had made, burned it up, and crushed it, thoroughly grinding it to powder as fine as dust. Then I threw it into the stream that came down from the mountain.

So the king sought advice.

Then he made two golden calves, and he said to the people, “Going to Jerusalem is too difficult for you. Israel, here is your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.”

This was the sin that caused the house of Jeroboam to be wiped out and annihilated from the face of the earth.

He will give up Israel because of Jeroboam’s sins that he committed and caused Israel to commit.”

Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria
and say, “As your god lives, Dan,”
or “As the way

of Beer-sheba lives”—

they will fall, never to rise again.

All this will happen because of Jacob’s rebellion
and the sins of the house of Israel.
What is the rebellion of Jacob?
Isn’t it Samaria?
And what is the high place of Judah?
Isn’t it Jerusalem?

The thorn

For even if they flee from devastation,
Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them.
Thistles will take possession of their precious silver;
thorns will invade their tents.

for the ground of my people
growing thorns and briers,
indeed, for every joyous house in the joyful city.

Her palaces will be overgrown with thorns;
her fortified cities, with thistles and briers.
She will become a dwelling for jackals,
an abode for ostriches.

Their altars

The man of God cried out against the altar by a revelation from the Lord: “Altar, altar, this is what the Lord says, ‘A son will be born to the house of David, named Josiah, and he will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who are burning incense on you. Human bones will be burned on you.’”

He even tore down the altar at Bethel and the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, had made. Then he burned the high place, crushed it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

When all this was completed, all Israel who had attended went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, to the last one. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own possession.

He burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

They shall

People will go into caves in the rocks
and holes in the ground,
away from the terror of the Lord
and from His majestic splendor,
when He rises to terrify the earth.

Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’

And they said to the mountains and to 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,

In those days people will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.

General references

Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’