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 King James Version (NKJV)I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: There is the harlotry of Ephraim; Israel is defiled.

Context of Hosea 6:10

8Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with bloody footprints. 9Like marauding bands waiting for a man, so a company of priests murders on the way toward Shechem. For they have committed crime. In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim’s prostitution is there, Israel has become unclean. 11Also, Judah, there is a harvest for you, when I return My people from captivity.”

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 appalled at this, O heavens! Be utterly horrified and dumbfounded.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
• Jeremiah 5:30An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land.
• Jeremiah 18:13Therefore thus says Adonai: “Ask now among the nations, whoever has heard such things? The virgin of Israel has done a most terrible thing.
• Jeremiah 23:14But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: committing adultery and walking in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers. No one turns back from his evil. They are all like Sodom to Me and her inhabitants like Gomorrah.”
• Hosea 4:11Prostitution and wine—even new wine— it takes away understanding.
• Hosea 5:3I myself have known Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me. For now, Ephraim, you are a prostitute— Israel is defiled!
• 1 Kings 12:8But he rejected the counsel the elders had given him, instead consulting with the young men who grew up with him and stood before him.
• 1 Kings 15:30because of the sins Jeroboam had committed and caused Israel to commit, by which he utterly provoked Adonai, God of Israel.
• 2 Kings 17:7Now it was so because the men of Israel had sinned against Adonai their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods.
• Jeremiah 3:6Then Adonai said to me in the days of King Josiah: “Have you seen what backsliding Israel did? She went up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there she committed adultery.
• Ezekiel 23:5“Oholah prostituted herself, though she was Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians, warriors,

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

In the dictionaries

• Ephraim
• Israel
• Consent
• Follow
• Crime; Crimes
• Horrible
• Hosea
• Untoward
• Zechariah, Book of

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