OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 11

Hosea 12:11

If Gilead is wicked,

surely they are worthless.

In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls.

Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.

THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Hosea 12:11 in context

Hosea 12:8–14

Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich.

I have found myself wealth.

In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”

“But I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt.

I will yet again make you dwell in tents,

as in the days of the solemn feast.

I have also spoken to the prophets,

and I have multiplied visions;

and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.

Selected verse

If Gilead is wicked,

surely they are worthless.

In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls.

Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.

Jacob fled into the country of Aram.

Israel served to get a wife.

For a wife he tended flocks and herds.

By a prophet the LORD brought Israel up out of Egypt,

and by a prophet he was preserved.

Ephraim has bitterly provoked anger.

Therefore his blood will be left on him,

and his Lord will repay his contempt.

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