Hosea 6:10

Hosea 6:10 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
• New International Version (NIV)I have seen a horrible thing in Israel: There Ephraim is given to prostitution, Israel is defiled.
• English Standard Version (ESV)In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim's whoredom is there; Israel is defiled.
• New Living Translation (NLT)Yes, I have seen something horrible in Ephraim and Israel: My people are defiled by prostituting themselves with other gods!

Context of Hosea 6:10

8Gilead is a city of evildoers And defiled with blood. 9As bands of robbers lie in wait for a man, So the company of priests murder on the way to Shechem; Surely they commit lewdness. I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: There is the harlotry of Ephraim; Israel is defiled. 11Also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed for you, When I return the captives of My people.

Hosea 6:10 word by word

בְּבֵית֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל רָאִ֖יתִי שַׁעֲרֽוּרִיָּ֑ה שָׁ֚ם זְנ֣וּת לְאֶפְרַ֔יִם נִטְמָ֖א יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• I have seenרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200
• an horrible thingשַׁעֲרִירִיָּהsha‛ărûrâh sha‛ărîyrîyâh sha‛ărûrith · horrorH8186
• in the houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: householdH1004
• of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyiώrâ'êl · IsraelH3478
• the whoredomזְנוּתzenûth · fornicationH2184
• of Ephraimאֶפְרַ֫יִם'ephrayim · EphraimH669
• is defiledטָמֵאţâmê' · to defileH2930

Cross-references for Hosea 6:10

• Jeremiah 2:12Be astonished, O heavens, at this, And be horribly afraid; Be very desolate,” says the Lord.
• Jeremiah 5:30“An astonishing and horrible thing Has been committed in the land:
• Jeremiah 18:13Therefore thus says the Lord: “Ask now among the Gentiles, Who has heard such things? The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.
• Jeremiah 23:14Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem: They commit adultery and walk in lies; They also strengthen the hands of evildoers, So that no one turns back from his wickedness. All of them are like Sodom to Me, And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.
• Hosea 4:11“Harlotry, wine, and new wine enslave the heart.
• Hosea 5:3I know Ephraim, And Israel is not hidden from Me; For now, O Ephraim, you commit harlotry; Israel is defiled.
• 1 Kings 12:8But he rejected the advice which the elders had given him, and consulted the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.
• 1 Kings 15:30because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he had sinned and by which he had made Israel sin, because of his provocation with which he had provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger.
• 2 Kings 17:7For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and they had feared other gods,
• Jeremiah 3:6The Lord said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: “Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot.
• Ezekiel 23:5“Oholah played the harlot even though she was Mine; And she lusted for her lovers, the neighboring Assyrians,

Commentaries on Hosea 6:10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10I have seen a horrible thing - That is, the idolatry that prevailed in Israel to such a degree that the whole land was defiled.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10I have seen a horrible thing - Literally, “what would make one shudder.” God had seen it; therefore man could not deny it. In the sight of God, and amid the sense of His presence, all excuses fail. In the house of Israel - o“For what more horrible, more amazing than that this happened, not in any ordinary nation but “in the house of Israel,” in the people of God, in the portion of the Lord, as Moses said, “the Lord‘s portion is His people, Jacob is the…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 4-11Verses 4-11 Sometimes Israel and Judah seemed disposed to repent under their sufferings, but their goodness vanished like the empty morning cloud, and the early dew, and they were as vile as ever. Therefore the Lord sent awful messages by the prophets. The word of God will be the death either of the sin or of the sinner. God desired mercy rather than sacrifice, and that knowledge of him which produces holy fear and love. This exposes the folly of those…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10a horrible thing: The prophet uses this rare word (also in Jeremiah 18:13) to describe how deeply Israel sinned by breaking God's covenant and betraying his trust.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. horrible thing--(Jr 5:30; 18:13; 23:14). whoredom--idolatry.Read the comment

Topics related to Hosea 6:10

• Backsliders
• Ephraim
• Sin

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Commentaries on Hosea 6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings