Cross references

Hosea 11:2

But the more I called Israel,

the farther they departed from Me.

They sacrificed to the Baals

and burned incense to carved images.

Hosea 11:2 BSB
  1. a LXX; Hebrew The more they called them, the more they went from them.

Hosea 11:2 has 25 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Jeremiah 18:15 (6 votes) and Hosea 2:13 (6 votes). 14 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Deuteronomy 29 to 2 Corinthians 2.

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Which verses does Hosea 11:2 point to?

The 20 strongest of 25, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.

  2. Hosea 2:136 votes

    I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she adorned herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.

  3. both for your iniquities and for those of your fathers,” says the LORD. “Because they burned incense on the mountains and scorned Me on the hills, I will measure into their laps full payment for their former deeds.”

  4. Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.” But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God. …

  5. Hosea 11:73 votes

    My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them.

  6. When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal, and he died. 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!”

  7. John 3:193 votes

    And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.

  8. Acts 7:513 votes

    You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.

  9. Moses summoned all Israel and proclaimed to them, “You have seen with your own eyes everything the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land. You saw with your own eyes the great trials, and those miraculous signs and wonders. …

  10. And again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and Philistines. Thus they forsook the LORD and did not serve Him.

Which verses point to Hosea 11:2?

The 10 strongest of 14.