Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.
New American Standard Bible
They have become altars of sinning for him.
King James Version
Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.
Holman Bible
they became his altars for sinning.
International Standard Version
"The more altars Ephraim builds for sin, the more altars there will be for sin.
A Conservative Version
Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, altars have been to him for sinning.
American Standard Version
Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars for sinning, altars have been unto him for sinning.
Amplified
For Ephraim has constructed many altars for sin;
They are altars intended for sinning [which multiply his guilt].
Darby Translation
Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.
Julia Smith Translation
Because Ephraim multiplied altars to sin, altars were to him to sin.
King James 2000
Because Ephraim has made many altars for sin offerings, the altars shall be unto him for sinning.
Lexham Expanded Bible
When Ephraim multiplied altars to expiate sins, they became to him altars to sin [on].
Modern King James verseion
Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin, altars shall be to him to sin.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Ephraim hath made many altars to do wickedness, therefore shall the altars turn to his sin.
NET Bible
Although Ephraim has built many altars for sin offerings, these have become altars for sinning!
New Heart English Bible
Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.
The Emphasized Bible
Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars sinfully, they have become to him the altars of sin.
Webster
Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be to him to sin.
World English Bible
Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.
Youngs Literal Translation
Because Ephraim did multiply altars to sin, They have been to him altars to sin.
Themes
Altar » Used in idolatrous worship
Ephraim » A tribe of israel » Name of, applied to the ten tribes
false Worship » Brazen serpent places devoted to idolatry » Idolatrous altars
Interlinear
Rabah
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 8:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel Rejects The Good
10 But though they give money to the nations for help, still I will send them in all directions; and in a short time they will be without a king and rulers. 11 Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him. 12 Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.
Phrases
Cross References
Hosea 12:11
In Gilead there is evil. They are quite without value; in Gilgal they make offerings of oxen; truly their altars are like masses of stones in the hollows of a ploughed field.
Deuteronomy 4:28
There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling.
Isaiah 10:10-11
As my hand has come on the kingdoms of the images, whose pictured images were more in number than those of Jerusalem and Samaria;
Jeremiah 16:13
For this reason I will send you away out of this land into a land which is strange to you, to you and to your fathers; there you will be the servants of other gods day and night, and you will have no mercy from me.
Hosea 10:1-2
Israel is a branching vine, full of fruit; as his fruit is increased, so the number of his altars is increased; as the land is fair, so they have made fair pillars.
Hosea 10:8
And the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will come to destruction; thorns and waste plants will come up on their altars; they will say to the mountains, Be a cover over us; and to the hills, Come down on us.