Hosea 6:10

A Call To Yahweh

⁹ And as raiders wait for a man,
So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem;
Surely they have committed crime.
¹⁰ In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
Ephraim’s harlotry is there, Israel has defiled itself.
¹¹ Also, O Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you,
When I restore the fortunes of My people.

House of Israel

My People

Other Gods

Played the Harlot

Ephraim

Israel

Judah

Hosea 5:3

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me;
For now, O Ephraim, you have played the harlot,
Israel has defiled itself.

Jeremiah 5:30-31

“An appalling and horrible thing
Has happened in the land:

Jeremiah 23:14

“Also among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing:
The committing of adultery and walking in falsehood;
And they strengthen the hands of evildoers,
So that no one has turned back from his wickedness.
All of them have become to Me like Sodom,
And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.

1 Kings 12:8

But he forsook the counsel of the elders which they had given him, and consulted with the young men who grew up with him and served him.

1 Kings 15:30

and because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger.

2 Kings 17:7

Now this came about because the sons of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and they had feared other gods

Jeremiah 2:12-13

“Be appalled, O heavens, at this,
And shudder, be very desolate,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:6

Then the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she was a harlot there.

Jeremiah 18:13

“Therefore thus says the Lord,
‘Ask now among the nations,
Who ever heard the like of this?
The virgin of Israel
Has done a most appalling thing.

Ezekiel 23:5

“Oholah played the harlot while she was Mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians, her neighbors,

Hosea 4:11

Harlotry, wine and new wine take away the understanding.

Hosea 4:17

Ephraim is joined to idols;
Let him alone.