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Hosea 10:5

The people of Samaria will fear

for the calf of Beth-aven.

Indeed, its people will mourn over it

with its idolatrous priests—

those who rejoiced in its glory—

for it has been taken from them into exile.

Hosea 10:5 BSB
  1. a Beth-aven means house of wickedness. This is a derogatory term for Bethel, which means house of God; see 1 Kings 12:28–29.

Hosea 10:5 has 17 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 7 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Hosea 9:11 (7 votes) and 2 Kings 23:5 (6 votes). 28 other verses point back to it. It links with 16 other books, from Exodus 32 to Revelation 18.

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Which verses does Hosea 10:5 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Hosea 9:117 votes

    Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird, with no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.

  2. 2 Kings 23:56 votes

    Josiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem—those who had burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.

  3. Hosea 5:86 votes

    Blow the ram’s horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah; raise the battle cry in Beth-aven: Lead on, O Benjamin!

  4. Hosea 4:155 votes

    Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear on oath, ‘As surely as the LORD lives!’

  5. Hosea 8:5–65 votes

    He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.

  6. 1 Samuel 4:21–224 votes

    And she named the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God had been captured and her father-in-law and her husband had been killed. “The glory has departed from Israel,” she said, “for the ark of God has been captured.”

  7. Hosea 13:24 votes

    Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”

  8. 2 Kings 10:293 votes

    but he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit—the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan.

  9. 2 Kings 17:163 votes

    They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.

  10. 2 Chronicles 11:153 votes

    And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.

  11. Zephaniah 1:43 votes
  12. Acts 19:273 votes
  13. Revelation 18:11–193 votes
  14. Joshua 7:22 votes
  15. Judges 18:242 votes
  16. 1 Kings 12:28–322 votes

    After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.” One calf he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan. …

  17. 2 Chronicles 13:81 vote

Which verses point to Hosea 10:5?

The 10 strongest of 28.