the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
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Hosea 8:11
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When Ephraim multiplied his altars for sin,they became his altars for sinning.
Because Efrayim has multiplied altars for sinning, They became for him altars for sinning.
Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.
Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they have become to him altars for sinning.
Since Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin, They have become altars of sinning for him.
"Although Israel built more altars to remove sin, they have become altars for sinning.
For Ephraim has constructed many altars for sin; They are altars intended for sinning [which multiply his guilt].
Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sinne, his altars shalbe to sinne.
Since Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin, They have become altars of sinning for him.
Since Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin,They have become altars of sinning for him.
Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.
Israel, you have built many altars where you offer sacrifices for sin. But these altars have become places for sin.
For Efrayim keeps building altars for sin; yes, altars are sinful for him.
Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.
"Ephraim built more and more altars, and that was a sin. They have been altars of sin for Ephraim.
Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin, altars have become to him for a great sin.
When Ephraim multiplied altars to expiate sins, they became to him altars to sin on.
Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin, they are altars to him to sin.
Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars for sinning, altars have been unto him for sinning.
Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.
For Ephraim hath multiplied altars to sin, yea, altars have been unto him to sin.
Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sinne, altars shall be vnto him to sinne.
Ephraim hath made many aulters to do wickednesse, his aulters [I say] he had to his sinne.
Because Ephraim has multiplied altars, his beloved altars are become sins to him.
Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars to sin, altars have been unto him to sin.
Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, They became for him altars for sinning.
For Efraym multipliede auteris to do synne, auteris weren maad to hym in to trespas.
Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, altars have been to him for sinning.
Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be to him to sin.
Although Ephraim has built many altars for sin offerings, these have become altars for sinning!
"Because Ephraim has made many altars for sin, They have become for him altars for sinning.
"Israel has built many altars to take away sin, but these very altars became places for sinning!
"Because Ephraim has made many altars for sin gifts, they have become altars for sinning.
When Ephraim multiplied altars to expiate sin, they became to him altars for sinning.
Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars sinfully, they have become to him the altars of sin.
Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin: altars are become to him unto sin.
Because E'phraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they have become to him altars for sinning.
Because Ephraim did multiply altars to sin, They have been to him altars to sin.
Ephraim hath made many aulters to do wickednes, therfore shal the aulters turne to his synne.
"Ephraim has built a lot of altars, and then uses them for sinning. Can you believe it? Altars for sinning! I write out my revelation for them in detail and they pretend they can't read it. They offer sacrifices to me and then they feast on the meat. God is not pleased! I'm fed up—I'll keep remembering their guilt. I'll punish their sins and send them back to Egypt. Israel has forgotten his Maker and gotten busy making palaces. Judah has gone in for a lot of fortress cities. I'm sending fire on their cities to burn down their fortifications."
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
many: Hosea 10:1, Hosea 10:2, Hosea 10:8, Hosea 12:11, Isaiah 10:10, Isaiah 10:11
altars: Deuteronomy 4:28, Jeremiah 16:13
Reciprocal: Exodus 32:5 - Aaron Deuteronomy 9:21 - I took Isaiah 31:7 - for a sin Hosea 5:3 - Ephraim
Cross-References
Then he waited another seven days and sent out the dove once more; this time it did not come back.
By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
So they gave the following instructions and sent them all through Jerusalem and the other cities and towns: "Go out to the hills and get branches from pines, olives, myrtles, palms, and other trees to make shelters according to the instructions written in the Law."
And how can the message be proclaimed if the messengers are not sent out? As the scripture says, "How wonderful is the coming of messengers who bring good news!"
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Because Ephraim hath, made many altars to sin,.... Not with an intention to commit sin, but to offer sacrifice for sin, and make atonement for it, as they thought; but these altars being erected for the sake of idols, and sacrifices offered on them to them, they sinned in so doing, and were the cause of sin in others, who were drawn into it by their example; as they were made to sin, or drawn into it, by Jeroboam their king, These altars were those set up at Dan and Bethel, and in all high places, and tops of mountains, where they sacrificed to idols; and which was contrary to the express command of God, who required sacrifice only at one place, and on one altar, Deuteronomy 12:5; typical of the one altar Christ, and his alone sacrifice, who is the only Mediator between God and man; and they are guilty of the same crime as Ephraim here, who make use of more, or neglect him;
altars shall be unto him for sin; either these same altars, and the sacrifices offered on them, shall be reckoned and imputed to him as sins, trod shall be the cause of his condemnation and punishment: or, "let the altars be unto him for sin", so some n; since he will have them, let him have them, and go on in sinning, till he has filled up the measure of his sins, and brought on him just condemnation; or else other altars are meant, even in the land of Assyria, where, since they were so fond of multiplying altars, they should have altars enough to sin at, whereby their sins would be increased, and their punishment for them aggravated. The Targum is,
"seeing the house of Ephraim hath multiplied altars to sin, the altars of their idols shall he to them for a stumbling block,''
or ruin; so sin is taken in a different sense, both for guilt, and the punishment of it.
n היו לו מזבחות לחטא "santo ergo illi altaria ad peccandum", Rivet.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall indeed be unto him to sin - that is, they shall be proved to him to be so, by the punishment which they shall draw upon him. The prophet had first shown them their folly in forsaking God for the help of man; now he shows them the folly of attempting to “secure themselves by their great shew and pretences of religion and devotion in a false way.” God had appointed “one” altar at Jerusalem. There He willed the sacrifices to be offered, which He would accept. To multiply altars, much more to set up altars against the one altar, was to multiply sin. Hosea charges Israel elsewhere with this multiplying of altars, as a grievous sin. “According to the multitude of his fruit, he hath increased altars. Their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field” Hosea 10:1; Hosea 12:11. They pretended doubtless, that they did it for a religious end, that they might thereon offer sacrifices for the expiation of their sins and appeasing of God. They endeavored to unite their own selfwill and the outward service of God. Therein they might deceive themselves; but they could not deceive God. He calls their act by its true name. To make altars at their own pleasure and to offer sacrifices upon them, under any pretence whatever, was to sin. So then, as many altars as they reared, so often did they repeat their sin; and this sin should be their only fruit. They should be, but only for sin. So God says of the two calves, “This thing became a sin” 1 Kings 12:30, and of the indiscriminate consecration of priests (not of the family of Aaron), “This thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off and to destroy it from the face of the earth” 1 Kings 13:33-34.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hosea 8:11. Many altars to sin — Though it does not appear that the Jews in Babylon were obliged to worship the idols of the country, except in the case mentioned by Daniel, yet it was far otherwise with the Israelites in Assyria, and the other countries of their dispersion. Because they had made many altars to sin while they were in their own land, they were obliged to continue in the land of their captivity a similar system of idolatry against their will. Thus they felt and saw the evil of their idolatry, without power to help themselves.
