Hosea 2:5

Which verses does Hosea 2:5 point to?

The 20 strongest of 26, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

1. Jeremiah 44:17–185 votes

   Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster. But from the time we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been perishing by sword and famine.”

2. Isaiah 1:214 votes

   See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!

3. Hosea 2:84 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.

4. Hosea 3:14 votes

   Then the LORD said to me, “Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love to offer raisin cakes to idols.”

5. Jeremiah 3:1–93 votes

   “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD. “Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness. …

6. Hosea 2:12–133 votes

   I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them. 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.

7. Judges 16:232 votes

   Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”

8. Ezra 9:6–72 votes

   and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens. From the days of our fathers to this day, our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities, we and our kings and priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the earth and subjected to the sword and to captivity, to pillage and humiliation, as we are this day.

9. Isaiah 50:12 votes

   This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

10. Isaiah 57:7–82 votes

    On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices. Behind the door and doorpost you have set up your memorial. Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed; you climbed up and opened it wide. And you have made a pact with those whose bed you have loved; you have gazed upon their nakedness.

11. Jeremiah 2:202 votes
12. Jeremiah 2:25–272 votes
13. Jeremiah 11:132 votes
14. Ezekiel 16:15–162 votes
15. Ezekiel 16:28–342 votes
16. Ezekiel 23:5–112 votes
17. Ezekiel 23:16–172 votes
18. Ezekiel 23:40–442 votes
19. Daniel 9:5–82 votes
20. Hosea 2:22 votes

    Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

Which verses point to Hosea 2:5?

The 10 strongest of 23.

• Hosea 1:2 7
• Deuteronomy 31:16 6
• Jeremiah 3:1 4
• Jeremiah 44:17 4
• Genesis 38:24 3
• Leviticus 20:5 3
• Ezekiel 23:25 3
• Hosea 2:2 3
• Hosea 2:12 3
• Joshua 15:7 2