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Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But the more they were called, the more they went back, offering unto Idols, and censing Images.
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.
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.
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 11:2
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Context Readings
God Will Have Compassion
1 When Israel was young, I loved him: and called my son out of the land of Egypt. 2 But the more they were called, the more they went back, offering unto Idols, and censing Images. 3 I learned Ephraim to go, and bare them in mine arms, but they regarded not me that would have helped them.
Cross References
Hosea 2:13
I will punish her also for the days of Baal, wherein she censed him, decking him with her earrings and chains: when she followed her lovers, and forgat me, sayeth the LORD.
Isaiah 65:7
I mean your misdeeds, and the misdeeds of your fathers together, sayeth the LORD, which have made their smokes upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their old deeds into their bosom again.
Jeremiah 18:15
But my people hath so forgotten me, that they have made sacrifice unto vain gods. And while they followed their own ways they are come out of the high street, and gone into a foot way not used to be trodden.
Hosea 11:7
My people hath no lust to turn unto me, their prophets lay the yoke upon them, but they ease them not of their burden.
Hosea 13:1-2
The abomination of Ephraim is come also into Israel. He is gone back to Baal, therefore must he die.
Deuteronomy 29:2-4
And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, "Ye have seen all, that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, unto Pharaoh and unto all his servants, and unto all his land,
Judges 2:13
And so they forsook the LORD and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
Judges 3:7
And so the children of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the LORD and forgot the LORD their God and served Baalim and Asheroth.
Judges 10:6
And the children of Israel wrought wickedness yet again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD and served him not.
1 Samuel 8:7-9
And the LORD said unto Samuel, "Hear the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee. For they have not cast thee away, but me: that I should not reign over them.
1 Kings 12:33
And he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel, the fifteenth day of the eighth month, which he had imagined of his own heart: and made a solemn feast unto the children of Israel, and went up to the altar to burn sacrifice.
1 Kings 16:31-32
For it seemed him a light thing to walk in the sin of Jeroboam - But took Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians to wife, and went and served Baal and bowed unto him.
1 Kings 18:19
But now send and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel; and the Prophets of Baal, four hundred and fifty; and the Prophets of the groves; four hundred, which eat of Jezebel's table.
2 Kings 17:13-16
And the LORD testified to Israel and to Judah, by all the prophets and by all the seers, saying, "Turn from your wicked ways and keep my commandments and mine ordinances according to all the laws which I commanded your fathers, and as I sent to you by my servants the prophets."
2 Chronicles 36:15-16
And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, sending them betimes: for he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.
Nehemiah 9:30
And many years didst thou forbear them, and testified unto them through thy spirit, even by the office of thy prophets, and yet would they not hear. Therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the nations in the lands.
Isaiah 30:9-11
For it is an obstinate people, unfaithful children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD.
Jeremiah 35:13
"Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Go and tell whole Judah and all the inhabiters of Jerusalem: Will ye not be reformed, to obey my words, sayeth the LORD?
Jeremiah 44:15-17
Then all the men which knew that their wives had offered unto strange gods, and a great sort of wives that stood there, yea and all the people that dwelt there in Egypt in the city of Pathros, answered Jeremiah, and said,
Zechariah 1:4
Be not ye like your forefathers, unto whom the Prophets cried afore time, saying, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God of hosts: Turn you from your evil ways, and from your wicked imaginations.' But they would not hear, nor regard me, sayeth the LORD.
Zechariah 7:11
Nevertheless, they would not take heed, but turned their backs and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
Luke 13:34
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee: how often would I have gathered thy children together, as the hen gathereth her nest under her wings, but ye would not.
John 3:19
And this is the condemnation: that light is come into the world, and the men have loved darkness more than light, because their deeds were evil.
Acts 7:51
"Ye stiffnecked and of uncircumcised hearts and ears: ye have always resisted the holy ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
2 Corinthians 2:15-16
For we are unto God the sweet savor of Christ, both among them that are saved, and also among them which perish: