Hosea 11 · Verse 2

Hosea 11:2

As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
Hosea 11:2, King James Version

Hosea 11:2 in other translations

BSBBut the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.
WEBThey called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.
ASVThe more the prophets called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
YLTThey have called to them rightly, They have gone from before them, To lords they do sacrifice, And to graven images they make perfume.
DARBYAs they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baals, and burned incense to graven images.
BBEWhen I sent for them, then they went away from me; they made offerings to the Baals, burning perfumes to images.
WebsterAs they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed to Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

What does Hosea 11:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
2. As they called them--"they," namely, monitors sent by Me. "Called," in Ho 11:1, suggests the idea of the many subsequent calls by the prophets. went from them--turned away in contempt (Jr 2:27). Baalim--images of Baal, set up in various places.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Hosea 11:1-7

God's regard for Israel; their ingratitude. (Hos. 11:1-7) The Divine mercy yet in store. (Hos. 11:8-12) Verses 1-7 When Israel were weak and helpless as children, foolish and froward as children, then God loved them; he bore them as the nurse does the sucking child, nourished them, and suffered their manners. All who are grown up, ought often to reflect upon the goodness of God to them in their childhood. He took…

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Hosea 11:2 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

קָרְא֖וּka.re.'Uthey summonedH7121
לָהֶ֑םla.Hem<to> them
כֵּ֚ןkensoH3651
הָלְכ֣וּha.le.Khuthey wentH1980
מִפְּנֵיהֶ֔םmi.pe.nei.Hemfrom before themH6440
לַבְּעָלִ֣יםla.be.'a.Limto the BaalsH1168
יְזַבֵּ֔חוּye.za.Be.chuthey sacrificedH2076
וְלַפְּסִלִ֖יםve.la.pe.si.Limand to the idolsH6456
יְקַטֵּרֽוּן\׃ye.ka.te.Runthey made smoke !H6999

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Cross references for Hosea 11:2

  • Jeremiah 18:15

    Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;

  • Hosea 2:13

    And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the Lord.

  • Isaiah 65:7

    Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.

  • John 3:19

    And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

  • Hosea 11:7

    And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

  • 2 Kings 17:13-16

    Yet the Lord testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the Lord their God. And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them. And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

  • Acts 7:51

    Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

  • Hosea 13:1-2

    When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died. And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

  • Zechariah 7:11

    But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

  • Jeremiah 44:15-17

    Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken unto thee. But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.

  • Deuteronomy 29:2-4

    And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

  • 1 Kings 12:33

    So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth–el the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
they called.
7; De 29:2-4; 1Sa 8:7-9; 2Ki 17:13-15; 2Ch 36:15,16; Ne 9:30
Isa 30:9-11; Jer 35:13; 44:16,17; Zec 1:4; 7:11; Lu 13:34; Joh 3:19
Ac 7:51; 2Co 2:15,16
they sacrificed.
2:13; 13:1,2; Jud 2:13; 3:7; 10:6; 1Ki 16:31,32; 18:19; 2Ki 17:16
burned.
1Ki 12:33; Isa 65:7; Jer 18:15; 44:15

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Context

  • Hosea 11:1

    When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

  • Hosea 11:2

    As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

  • Hosea 11:3

    I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

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Hosea 11:2 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Como los llamaban, así ellos se iban de su presencia; á los Baales sacrificaban, y á las esculturas ofrecían sahumerios.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Les prophètes les appelaient, et chaque fois ils s’en allaient d’auprès d’eux: ils sacrifiaient aux Baals et brûlaient de l’encens aux images taillées.
German
Elberfelder 1871
So oft sie ihnen riefen, gingen sie von ihrem Angesicht hinweg: sie opferten den Baalim und räucherten den geschnitzten Bildern.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Vocaverunt eos, sic abierunt a facie eorum; Baalim immolabant, et simulacris sacrificabant.