Hosea 2:8 Cross References

Hosea 2:8

8: She doesn't realize that it was I who gave her everything she has--the grain, the wine, the olive oil. Even the gold and silver she used in worshiping the god Baal were gifts from me!

Isaiah 1:3

  1. Even the animals--the donkey and the ox--know their owner and appreciate his care, but not my people Israel. No matter what I do for them, they still do not understand."

Hosea 13:2

  1. Now they keep on sinning by making silver idols to worship--images shaped skillfully with human hands. "Sacrifice to these," they cry, "and kiss the calf idols!"

Hosea 8:4

  1. The people have appointed kings and princes, but not with my consent. By making idols for themselves from their silver and gold, they have brought about their own destruction.

Ezekiel 16:16

  1. You used the lovely things I gave you to make shrines for idols, where you carried out your acts of prostitution. Unbelievable! How could such a thing ever happen?
  2. You took the very jewels and gold and silver ornaments I had given you and made statues of men and worshiped them, which is adultery against me.
  3. You used the beautifully embroidered clothes I gave you to cover your idols. Then you used my oil and incense to worship them.
  4. Imagine it! You set before them as a lovely sacrifice the fine flour and oil and honey I had given you, says the Sovereign LORD.

Hosea 4:11

  1. "Alcohol and prostitution have robbed my people of their brains.

Hosea 10:1

  1. How prosperous Israel is--a luxuriant vine loaded with fruit! But the more wealth the people got, the more they poured it on the altars of their foreign gods. The richer the harvests they brought in, the more beautiful the statues and idols they built.

Daniel 5:3

  1. So they brought these gold cups taken from the Temple of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.
  2. They drank toasts from them to honor their idols made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

Romans 1:28

  1. When they refused to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their evil minds and let them do things that should never be done.

Habakkuk 1:16

  1. Then they will worship their nets and burn incense in front of them. "These nets are the gods who have made us rich!" they will claim.

Luke 16:1

  1. Jesus told this story to his disciples: "A rich man hired a manager to handle his affairs, but soon a rumor went around that the manager was thoroughly dishonest.
  2. So his employer called him in and said, 'What's this I hear about your stealing from me? Get your report in order, because you are going to be dismissed.'

Acts 17:23

  1. for as I was walking along I saw your many altars. And one of them had this inscription on it--'To an Unknown God.' You have been worshiping him without knowing who he is, and now I wish to tell you about him.
  2. "He is the God who made the world and everything in it. Since he is Lord of heaven and earth, he doesn't live in man-made temples,
  3. and human hands can't serve his needs--for he has no needs. He himself gives life and breath to everything, and he satisfies every need there is.

Jeremiah 7:18

  1. No wonder I am so angry! Watch how the children gather wood and the fathers build sacrificial fires. See how the women knead dough and make cakes to offer to the Queen of Heaven. And they give drink offerings to their other idol gods!

Judges 17:1

  1. A man named Micah lived in the hill country of Ephraim.
  2. One day he said to his mother, "I heard you curse the thief who stole eleven hundred pieces of silver from you. Well, here they are. I was the one who took them.The LORD bless you for admitting it," his mother replied.
  3. He returned the money to her, and she said, "I now dedicate these silver coins to the LORD. In honor of my son, I will have an image carved and an idol cast."
  4. So his mother took two hundred of the silver coins to a silversmith, who made them into an image and an idol. And these were placed in Micah's house.
  5. Micah set up a shrine, and he made a sacred ephod and some household idols. Then he installed one of his sons as the priest.

Hosea 2:5

  1. For their mother is a shameless prostitute and became pregnant in a shameful way. She said, `I'll run after other lovers and sell myself to them for food and drink, for clothing of wool and linen, and for olive oil.'

Isaiah 46:6

  1. Some people pour out their silver and gold and hire a craftsman to make a god from it. Then they bow down and worship it!

Judges 9:27

  1. During the annual harvest festival at Shechem, held in the temple of the local god, the wine flowed freely, and everyone began cursing Abimelech.

Isaiah 24:7

  1. All the joys of life will be gone. The grape harvest will fail, and there will be no wine. The merrymakers will sigh and mourn.
  2. The clash of tambourines will be stilled; the happy cries of celebration will be heard no more. The melodious chords of the harp will be silent.
  3. Gone are the joys of wine and song; strong drink now turns bitter in the mouth.

Exodus 32:2

  1. So Aaron said, "Tell your wives and sons and daughters to take off their gold earrings, and then bring them to me."
  2. All the people obeyed Aaron and brought him their gold earrings.
  3. Then Aaron took the gold, melted it down, and molded and tooled it into the shape of a calf. The people exclaimed, "O Israel, these are the gods who brought you out of Egypt!"

Daniel 5:23

  1. For you have defied the Lord of heaven and have had these cups from his Temple brought before you. You and your nobles and your wives and concubines have been drinking wine from them while praising gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone--gods that neither see nor hear nor know anything at all. But you have not honored the God who gives you the breath of life and controls your destiny!

Luke 15:13

  1. "A few days later this younger son packed all his belongings and took a trip to a distant land, and there he wasted all his money on wild living.

Jeremiah 44:17

  1. We will do whatever we want. We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and sacrifice to her just as much as we like--just as we and our ancestors did before us, and as our kings and princes have always done in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For in those days we had plenty to eat, and we were well off and had no troubles!
  2. But ever since we quit burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and stopped worshiping her, we have been in great trouble and have suffered the effects of war and famine."
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