Hosea 6 · Verse 10

Hosea 6:10

I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
Hosea 6:10, King James Version

Hosea 6:10 in other translations

BSBIn the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim practices prostitution there, and Israel is defiled.
WEBIn the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled.
ASVIn the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there whoredom is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
YLTIn the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, There is the whoredom of Ephraim--defiled is Israel.
DARBYIn the house of Israel have I seen a horrible thing: the whoredom of Ephraim is there; Israel is defiled.
BBEIn Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean;
WebsterI have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the prostitution of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

What does Hosea 6:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
10. horrible thing--(Jr 5:30; 18:13; 23:14). whoredom--idolatry.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 10 I have seen a horrible thing - That is, the idolatry that prevailed in Israel to such a degree that the whole land was defiled.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Hosea 6:4-11

Sometimes Israel and Judah seemed disposed to repent under their sufferings, but their goodness vanished like the empty morning cloud, and the early dew, and they were as vile as ever. Therefore the Lord sent awful messages by the prophets. The word of God will be the death either of the sin or of the sinner. God desired mercy rather than sacrifice, and that knowledge of him which produces holy fear and love. This…

Read the full comment on Hosea 6:4-11 →

Hosea 6:10 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.

בְּבֵית֙be.Veitin [the] house ofH1004
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
רָאִ֖יתִיra.'I.tiI have seenH7200
שַׁעֲרֽוּרִיָּ֑הsha.'a.ri.ri.yaha horrible [thing]H8186
שָׁ֚םSham[is] thereH8033
זְנ֣וּתze.NutprostitutionH2184
לְאֶפְרַ֔יִםle.'ef.Ra.yim[belongs] to EphraimH669
נִטְמָ֖אnit.Ma'it has made itself uncleanH2930
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל\׃Yis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Hosea 6:10

  • Hosea 5:3

    I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.

  • Jeremiah 23:14

    I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

  • Ezekiel 23:5

    And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,

  • Jeremiah 3:6

    The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

  • Jeremiah 5:30-31

    A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

  • 2 Kings 17:7

    For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

  • 1 Kings 15:30

    Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger.

  • 1 Kings 12:8

    But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:

  • Hosea 4:17

    Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.

  • Jeremiah 2:12-13

    Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord. For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

  • Hosea 4:11

    Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

  • Jeremiah 18:13

    Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jer 2:12,13; 5:30,31; 18:13; 23:14
there.
4:11,17; 5:3; 1Ki 12:8; 15:30; 2Ki 17:7; Jer 3:6; Eze 23:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Hosea 6:9

    And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

  • Hosea 6:10

    I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

  • Hosea 6:11

    Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

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Hosea 6:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
En la casa de Israel he visto suciedad: allí fornicó Ephraim, se contaminó Israel:
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
J’ai vu des choses horribles dans la maison d’Israël: là est la prostitution d’Éphraïm! Israël s’est souillé!
German
Elberfelder 1871
Im Hause Israel habe ich Schauderhaftes gesehen: daselbst ist Ephraims Hurerei, Israel hat sich verunreinigt.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
In domo Israël vidi horrendum: ibi fornicationes Ephraim, contaminatus est Israël.