Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
They have called to them rightly, They have gone from before them, To lords they do sacrifice, And to graven images they make perfume.
New American Standard Bible
The more they went from
They kept
And
King James Version
As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
Holman Bible
the more they
They kept sacrificing to the Baals
and burning offerings to idols.
International Standard Version
The more I called out to them, the farther they fled from me; they sacrificed to Baals, burning incense to carved images.
A Conservative Version
The more [the prophets] called them, the more they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
American Standard Version
The more the prophets called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
Amplified
The more they [the prophets] called them [to repentance and obedience],
The more they went away from them;
They kept sacrificing to the Baals
And burning incense to the carved images.
Bible in Basic English
When I sent for them, then they went away from me; they made offerings to the Baals, burning perfumes to images.
Darby Translation
As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baals, and burned incense to graven images.
Julia Smith Translation
They called to them, thus they went from them: they will sacrifice to the Baals, and to the carved images they will burn incense.
King James 2000
As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
Lexham Expanded Bible
When I called them, they went from my face. They sacrificed to the Baals, and they sacrificed to idols.
Modern King James verseion
As they called them, so they went from them. They sacrifice to the Baals, and burn incense to graven images.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But the more they were called, the more they went back, offering unto Idols, and censing Images.
NET Bible
But the more I summoned them, the farther they departed from me. They sacrificed to the Baal idols and burned incense to images.
New Heart English Bible
They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.
The Emphasized Bible
They invited them, - at once, they departed from before me, they, to the Baals, sacrificed, and, to the images, offered incense.
Webster
As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed to Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
World English Bible
They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 11:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Will Have Compassion
1 Because Israel is a youth, and I love him, Out of Egypt I have called for My Son. 2 They have called to them rightly, They have gone from before them, To lords they do sacrifice, And to graven images they make perfume. 3 And I have caused Ephraim to go on foot, Taking them by their arms, And they have not known that I strengthened them.
Cross References
Hosea 2:13
And I have charged on her the days of the Baalim, To whom she maketh perfume, And putteth on her ring and her ornament, And goeth after her lovers, And Me forgat -- an affirmation of Jehovah.
Isaiah 65:7
Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, said Jehovah, Who have made perfume on the mountains, And on the heights have reproached Me, And I have measured their former work into their bosom.'
Jeremiah 18:15
But My people have forgotten Me, to a vain thing they make perfume, And they cause them to stumble in their ways -- paths of old, To walk in paths -- a way not raised up,
Hosea 11:7
And My people are hanging in suspense, about My returning, And unto the Most High they do call, Together they exalt not.
Hosea 13:1-2
When Ephraim speaketh tremblingly, He hath been lifted up in Israel, When he becometh guilty in Baal he dieth.
Deuteronomy 29:2-4
And Moses calleth unto all Israel, and saith unto them, 'Ye -- ye have seen all that which Jehovah hath done before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
Judges 2:13
yea, they forsake Jehovah, and do service to Baal and to Ashtaroth.
Judges 3:7
and the sons of Israel do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and forget Jehovah their God, and serve the Baalim and the shrines.
Judges 10:6
And the sons of Israel add to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and serve the Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Aram, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the Bene-Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsake Jehovah, and have not served Him;
1 Samuel 8:7-9
And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, 'Hearken to the voice of the people, to all that they say unto thee, for thee they have not rejected, but Me they have rejected, from reigning over them.
1 Kings 12:33
And he offereth up on the altar that he made in Beth-El, on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month that he devised of his own heart, and he maketh a festival to the sons of Israel, and offereth on the altar -- to make perfume.
1 Kings 16:31-32
And it cometh to pass -- hath it been light his walking in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat? -- then he taketh a wife, Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Zidonians, and goeth and serveth Baal, and boweth himself to it,
1 Kings 18:19
and now, send, gather unto me all Israel, unto the mount of Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the shrine, four hundred -- eating at the table of Jezebel.'
2 Kings 17:13-16
And Jehovah testifieth against Israel, and against Judah, by the hand of every prophet, and every seer, saying, 'Turn back from your evil ways, and keep My commands, My statutes, according to all the law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent unto you by the hand of My servants the prophets;'
2 Chronicles 36:15-16
And Jehovah, God of their fathers, sendeth unto them by the hand of His messengers -- rising early and sending -- for He hath had pity on His people, and on His habitation,
Nehemiah 9:30
'And Thou drawest over them many years, and testifiest against them by Thy Spirit, by the hand of Thy prophets, and they have not given ear, and Thou dost give them into the hand of peoples of the lands,
Isaiah 30:9-11
That a rebellious people is this, sons -- liars, Sons not willing to hear the law of Jehovah.
Jeremiah 35:13
Go, and thou hast said to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Do ye not receive instruction? -- to hearken unto My words -- an affirmation of Jehovah.
Jeremiah 44:15-17
And they answer Jeremiah -- all the men who are knowing that their wives are making perfume to other gods, and all the women who are remaining, a great assembly, even all the people who are dwelling in the land of Egypt, in Pathros -- saying:
Zechariah 1:4
Ye shall not be as your fathers, To whom the former prophets called, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Turn back I pray you, From your evil ways and from your evil doings, And they did not hearken, Nor attend to Me -- an affirmation of Jehovah.
Zechariah 7:11
And they refuse to attend, And they give a refractory shoulder, And their ears have made heavy against hearing.
Luke 13:34
'Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that is killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto her, how often did I will to gather together thy children, as a hen her brood under the wings, and ye did not will.
John 3:19
'And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;
Acts 7:51
Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers -- also ye;
2 Corinthians 2:15-16
because of Christ a sweet fragrance we are to God, in those being saved, and in those being lost;