Hosea 6:10

10 I have seen a horrible thing in Israel: There Ephraim is given to prostitution, Israel is defiled.

Hosea 6:10 in Other Translations

10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim’s whoredom is there; Israel is defiled.

10 Yes, I have seen something horrible in Ephraim and Israel: My people are defiled by prostituting themselves with other gods!

10 "I saw a shocking thing in the country of Israel: Ephraim worshiping in a religious whorehouse, and Israel in the mud right there with him.

10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there whoredom is [found] in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

10 "I have seen horrible things in the nation of Israel. Ephraim is acting like a prostitute, and Israel is unclean.

10 I have seen something horrible in the house of Israel: Ephraim's promiscuity is there; Israel is defiled.

10 People of Israel, I have seen a horrible thing in your land. People of Ephraim, you have joined yourselves to other gods. You have made yourselves 'unclean.'

Hosea 6:10 Meaning and Commentary

Hosea 6:10

I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel
Idolatry, the calves set up at Dan and Bethel, which God saw with abhorrence and detestation; or the prophet saw it, and it made his hair stand on end as it were, as the word ^F7 signifies, that such wickedness should be committed by a professing people: there [is] the whoredom of Ephraim;
in the house of Israel is the whoredom of Jeroboam, who was of the tribe of Ephraim, and caused Israel to sin, to go a whoring after idols; or the whoredom of the tribe of Ephraim, which belonged to the house of Israel, and even of all the ten tribes; both corporeal and spiritual whoredom, or idolatry, are here meant: Israel is defiled;
with whoredom of both kinds; it had spread itself all over the ten tribes; they were all infected with it, and polluted by it; see ( Hosea 5:3 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 (hyrwrev) a (rev) "pilus".

Hosea 6:10 In-Context

8 Gilead is a city of evildoers, stained with footprints of blood.

9 As marauders lie in ambush for a victim, so do bands of priests; they murder on the road to Shechem, carrying out their wicked schemes.

10 I have seen a horrible thing in Israel: There Ephraim is given to prostitution, Israel is defiled.

11 “Also for you, Judah, a harvest is appointed. “Whenever I would restore the fortunes of my people,

Cross References

• 1. S Jeremiah 5:30
• 2. S Jeremiah 23:14; S Ezekiel 23:7; S Hosea 5:3