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Hosea 10

Hos. 10:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The high places
bamah (Hebrew #1116)
an elevation
KJV usage: height, high place, wave.
Pronounce: bam-maw'
Origin: from an unused root (meaning to be high)
also of Aven
'Aven (Hebrew #206)
idolatry; Aven, the contemptuous synonym of three places, one in Coele-Syria, one in Egypt (On), and one in Palestine (Bethel)
KJV usage: Aven. See also 204, 1007.
Pronounce: aw'-ven
Origin: the same as 205
, the sin
chatta'ah (Hebrew #2403)
from 2398; an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender
KJV usage: punishment (of sin), purifying(-fication for sin), sin(-ner, offering).
Pronounce: khat-taw-aw'
Origin: or chattacth {khat-tawth'}
e of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
, shall be destroyed
shamad (Hebrew #8045)
to desolate
KJV usage: destory(- uction), bring to nought, overthrow, perish, pluck down, X utterly.
Pronounce: shaw-mad'
Origin: a primitive root
: the thorn
qowts (Hebrew #6975)
from 6972 (in the sense of pricking); a thorn
KJV usage: thorn.
Pronounce: kotse
Origin: or qots {kotse}
and the thistle
dardar (Hebrew #1863)
a thorn
KJV usage: thistle.
Pronounce: dar-dar'
Origin: of uncertain derivation
shall come up
`alah (Hebrew #5927)
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative (as follow)
KJV usage: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, + shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, X mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, + perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.
Pronounce: aw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
on their altars
mizbeach (Hebrew #4196)
an altar
KJV usage: altar.
Pronounce: miz-bay'-akh
Origin: from 2076
; andf they shall say
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
to the mountains
har (Hebrew #2022)
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
KJV usage: hill (country), mount(-ain), X promotion.
Pronounce: har
Origin: a shortened form of 2042
, Cover
kacah (Hebrew #3680)
properly, to plump, i.e. fill up hollows; by implication, to cover (for clothing or secrecy)
KJV usage: clad self, close, clothe, conceal, cover (self), (flee to) hide, overwhelm. Compare 3780.
Pronounce: kaw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
us; and to the hills
gib`ah (Hebrew #1389)
a hillock
KJV usage: hill, little hill.
Pronounce: ghib-aw'
Origin: feminine from the same as 1387
, Fall
naphal (Hebrew #5307)
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for 6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (X hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, X surely, throw down.
Pronounce: naw-fal'
Origin: a primitive root
on us.
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1 Kings 12:30• 30And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan. (1 Kings 12:30)
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Rev. 6:16• 16And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: (Rev. 6:16)

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Aven,
High Place,
Israel,
Mountain Mount,
Sin,
Thistles,
Thorns; Thistles

Cross References

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high places.
Hos. 10:5• 5The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it. (Hos. 10:5)
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Hos. 4:15• 15Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, The Lord liveth. (Hos. 4:15)
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Hos. 5:8• 8Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Beth-aven, after thee, O Benjamin. (Hos. 5:8)
the sin.
Deut. 9:21• 21And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. (Deut. 9:21)
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1 Kings 12:28‑30• 28Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
 29And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in Dan.
 30And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan. (1 Kings 12:28‑30)
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1 Kings 13:34• 34And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth. (1 Kings 13:34)
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1 Kings 14:16• 16And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin. (1 Kings 14:16)
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Amos 8:14• 14They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again. (Amos 8:14)
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Mic. 1:5,13• 5For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?
 13O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee. (Mic. 1:5,13)
the thorn.
Hos. 9:6• 6For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles. (Hos. 9:6)
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Isa. 32:13• 13Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: (Isa. 32:13)
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Isa. 34:13• 13And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls. (Isa. 34:13)
their altars.
1 Kings 13:2• 2And he cried against the altar in the word of the Lord, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee. (1 Kings 13:2)
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2 Kings 23:15• 15Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove. (2 Kings 23:15)
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2 Chron. 31:1• 1Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities. (2 Chron. 31:1)
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2 Chron. 34:5‑7• 5And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
 6And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.
 7And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem. (2 Chron. 34:5‑7)
they shall.
Isa. 2:19• 19And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. (Isa. 2:19)
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Luke 23:30• 30Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us. (Luke 23:30)
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Rev. 6:16• 16And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: (Rev. 6:16)
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Rev. 9:6• 6And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. (Rev. 9:6)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up upon their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us! and to the hills, Fall on us!