Hosea 9:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

Found

Jeremiah 31:2

Grapes

But

Numbers 25:3

Deuteronomy 4:3

Psalm 106:28

Separated

Romans 6:21

And their

General references

Leviticus 18:27

Jeremiah 3:24

Amos 5:25

Bible References

Found

"When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.

'You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you to myself.

He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.

"Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, 'Thus says the LORD, "I remember you, the devotion of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

Thus says the LORD, "The people who were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

Grapes

I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.

The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.

Misery is mine. Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.

But

Israel joined himself to Baal Peor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.

Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, the LORD your God has destroyed them from the midst of you.

They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

Separated

I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.

Therefore on that day he named him Jerubbaal, saying, "Let Baal contend against him, because he has broken down his altar."

It happened, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.

For according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.'

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

And their

and it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look on it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute;

They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they did not know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers did not dread.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me; they each didn't throw away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: for this pleases you, you children of Israel," says the Lord GOD.

General references

(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);

But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

"Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?