Cross references
Hosea 13:2
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!”
- a Or “The men who sacrifice kiss the calves!” See 1 Kings 19:18.
Hosea 13:2 has 26 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 6 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 Kings 19:18 (6 votes) and Isaiah 44:17–20 (6 votes). 22 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Exodus 32 to 2 Timothy 3.
Which verses does Hosea 13:2 point to?
The 20 strongest of 26, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- 1 Kings 19:186 votes
Nevertheless, I have reserved seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”
- Isaiah 44:17–206 votes
From the rest he makes a god, his graven image. He bows down to it and worships; he prays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god.” They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand. …
- Isaiah 46:66 votes
They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.
- Jeremiah 10:45 votes
They adorn it with silver and gold and fasten it with hammer and nails, so that it will not totter.
- Hosea 2:85 votes
For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold—which they crafted for Baal.
- Habakkuk 2:18–194 votes
What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak. Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ or to silent stone, ‘Arise!’ Can it give guidance? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all.”
- Romans 1:22–253 votes
Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. …
- Romans 11:43 votes
And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
- 2 Timothy 3:133 votes
while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
- Numbers 32:142 votes
Now behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.
- 1 Samuel 10:12 votes
- 2 Chronicles 28:132 votes
- 2 Chronicles 33:232 votes
- Psalm 2:122 votes
- Psalm 115:4–82 votes
- Psalm 135:17–182 votes
- Isaiah 1:52 votes
- Isaiah 30:12 votes
- Isaiah 45:202 votes
- Isaiah 46:82 votes
Which verses point to Hosea 13:2?
The 10 strongest of 22.