Osee 8:11

11 Because Ephraim has multiplied altars, beloved altars are become sins to him.

Osee 8:11 In-Context

9 For they have gone up to the Assyrians: Ephraim has been strengthened against himself; they loved gifts.

10 Therefore shall they be delivered to the nations: now I will receive them, and they shall cease a little to anoint a king and princes.

11 Because Ephraim has multiplied altars, beloved altars are become sins to him.

12 I will write down a multitude for him; but his statutes are accounted strange things, the beloved altars.

13 For if they should offer a sacrifice, and eat flesh, the lord will not accept them: now will he remember their iniquities, and will take vengeance on their sins: they have returned to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things among the Assyrians.