Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Ephraim hath made many altars to do wickedness, therefore shall the altars turn to his sin.
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].
Bible in Basic English
Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.
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.
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 Therefore are they scattered among the Heathen; There will I gather them up. They shall soon be weary of the burden of king and princes. 11 Ephraim hath made many altars to do wickedness, therefore shall the altars turn to his sin. 12 Though I show them my law never so much, they count it but strange doctrine.
Phrases
Cross References
Hosea 12:11
But at Gilead is the abomination, they are fallen to vanity. At Gilgal they have slain oxen: and as many heaps of stones as they had in their land furrows, so many altars have they made.
Deuteronomy 4:28
and there ye shall serve gods which are the works of man's hand: wood and stone which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.
Isaiah 10:10-11
As who say, "I were able to win the kingdom of the Idolaters and their gods, but not Jerusalem and Samaria.
Jeremiah 16:13
Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye and your fathers know not: and there shall ye serve strange gods day and night, there will I show you no favour.
Hosea 10:1-2
Israel was a goodly vine, but he hath brought forth unprofitable fruit: yea, the more fruit he had the more altars he made; the more good I did to their land, the more friendship showed they to their Images.
Hosea 10:8
The high places of Aven, where Israel do sin, shall be cast down: thistles and thorns shall grow upon their altars. Then shall they say to the mountains, "Cover us," and to the hills, "Fall upon us."