Cross references
Hosea 8:9
For they have gone up to Assyria
like a wild donkey on its own.
Ephraim
has hired lovers.
- a That is, the northern kingdom of Israel; also in verse 11
Hosea 8:9 has 11 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Jeremiah 2:24 (8 votes) and Ezekiel 16:33–34 (4 votes). 14 other verses point back to it. It links with 5 other books, from 2 Kings 15 to Hosea 14.
Which verses does Hosea 8:9 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Jeremiah 2:248 votes
a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.
- Ezekiel 16:33–344 votes
Men give gifts to all their prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors. So your prostitution is the opposite of that of other women: No one solicited your favors, and you paid a fee instead of receiving one; so you are the very opposite!
- Hosea 5:134 votes
When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.
- Hosea 7:114 votes
So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove—calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.
- 2 Kings 15:193 votes
Then Pul king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver in order to gain his support and strengthen his own grip on the kingdom.
- Isaiah 30:63 votes
This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.
- Job 39:5–82 votes
Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness? I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling. …
- Ezekiel 23:5–92 votes
Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all desirable young men, horsemen mounted on steeds. …
- Hosea 2:5–72 votes
For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way. …
- Hosea 2:102 votes
And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.
- Hosea 12:12 votes
Which verses point to Hosea 8:9?
The 10 strongest of 14.