Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.
Cir. A.M.
Isaiah 5:1-7 Now will I sing to my well beloved a song of my beloved touching …
Ezekiel 15:1-5 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying…
Nahum 2:2 For the LORD has turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency …
John 15:1-6 I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer…
an empty vine. or, a vine emptying the fruit which it giveth. unto.
Zechariah 7:5,6 Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, …
Romans 14:7,8 For none of us lives to himself, and no man dies to himself…
2 Corinthians 5:16 Why from now on know we no man after the flesh: yes, though we have …
Philippians 2:21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
to the multitude.
Hosea 2:8 For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and …
Hosea 8:4,11 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and …
Hosea 12:8,11 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance…
Hosea 13:2,6 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images …
Jeremiah 2:28 But where are your gods that you have made you? let them arise, if …
images. Heb. statues, or standing images.
Leviticus 26:1 You shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither raise you up …
1 Kings 14:23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on …
Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
Their heart is divided. or, He hath divided their heart.
Hosea 7:8 Ephraim, he has mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
1 Kings 18:21 And Elijah came to all the people, and said, How long halt you between …
Isaiah 44:18 They have not known nor understood: for he has shut their eyes, that …
Zephaniah 1:5 And them that worship the host of heaven on the housetops; and them …
Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and …
Luke 16:13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, …
2 Thessalonians 2:11,12 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they …
James 1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
James 4:4 You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship …
1 John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If …
Revelation 3:15,16 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would you …
break down. Heb. behead.
Hosea 10:5-8 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: …
Hosea 8:5,6 Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off; my anger is kindled against …
1 Samuel 5:4 And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was …
Jeremiah 43:13 He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that is in the land of Egypt…
Micah 5:13 Your graven images also will I cut off, and your standing images …
Zechariah 13:2 And it shall come to pass in that day, said the LORD of hosts, that …
For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?
They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
swearing.
Hosea 6:7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they …
2 Kings 17:3,4 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became …
Ezekiel 17:13-19 And has taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and …
Romans 1:31 Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, …
2 Timothy 3:3 Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, …
thus.
Deuteronomy 29:18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, …
Isaiah 5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and …
Isaiah 59:13-15 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from …
Amos 5:7 You who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
Amos 6:12 Shall horses run on the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for …
Acts 8:23 For I perceive that you are in the gall of bitterness, and in the …
Hebrews 12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any …
Revelation 8:10,11 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, …
The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: 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.
the calves.
Hosea 8:5,6 Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off; my anger is kindled against …
Hosea 13:2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images …
1 Kings 12:28-32 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and …
2 Kings 10:29 However, from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel …
2 Kings 17:16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made …
2 Chronicles 11:15 And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, …
2 Chronicles 13:8 And now you think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand …
Beth-aven.
Hosea 4:15 Though you, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and …
Hosea 5:8 Blow you the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud …
Joshua 7:2 And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Bethaven, …
for the people.
Judges 18:24 And he said, You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, …
Revelation 18:11-19 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for …
the priests. or, Chemarim.
2 Kings 23:5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had …
Zephaniah 1:4 I will also stretch out my hand on Judah, and on all the inhabitants …
for the glory.
Hosea 9:11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the …
1 Samuel 4:21,22 And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from …
Acts 19:27 So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nothing; …
It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.
carried.
Hosea 8:6 For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is …
Isaiah 46:1,2 Bel bows down, Nebo stoops, their idols were on the beasts, and on …
Jeremiah 43:12,13 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and …
Daniel 11:8 And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, …
a present.
Hosea 5:13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went …
2 Kings 17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became …
receive.
Hosea 4:19 The wind has bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed …
Isaiah 1:29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and …
Isaiah 44:9-11 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable …
Isaiah 45:16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall …
Jeremiah 2:26,27,36,37 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel …
Jeremiah 3:24,25 For shame has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth; their …
Jeremiah 48:13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was …
Ezekiel 36:31 Then shall you remember your own evil ways, and your doings that …
ashamed.
Hosea 11:6 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, …
Job 18:7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel …
Isaiah 30:3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust …
Jeremiah 7:24 But they listened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the …
Micah 6:16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house …
As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.
The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
high places.
Hosea 10:5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: …
Hosea 4:15 Though you, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and …
Hosea 5:8 Blow you the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud …
the sin.
Deuteronomy 9:21 And I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with …
1 Kings 12:28-30 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and …
1 Kings 13:34 And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it …
1 Kings 14:16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who …
Amos 8:14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Your god, O Dan, …
Micah 1:5,13 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the …
the thorn.
Hosea 9:6 For, see, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather …
Isaiah 32:13 On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, on …
Isaiah 34:13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in …
their altars.
1 Kings 13:2 And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, …
2 Kings 23:15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam …
2 Chronicles 31:1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went …
2 Chronicles 34:5-7 And he burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and cleansed …
they shall.
Isaiah 2:19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves …
Luke 23:30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to …
Revelation 6:16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from …
Revelation 9:6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and …
O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.
from.
Hosea 9:9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: …
Judges 19:22-30 Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the …
Judges 20:5,13,14 And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round …
the battle.
Judges 20:17-48 And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred …
did.
Genesis 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth…
Genesis 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet smell; and the LORD said in his heart, …
Zephaniah 3:6,7 I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their …
Matthew 23:31,32 Why you be witnesses to yourselves, that you are the children of …
It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.
in my.
Deuteronomy 28:63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to …
Isaiah 1:24 Therefore said the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, …
Jeremiah 15:6 You have forsaken me, said the LORD, you are gone backward: therefore …
Ezekiel 5:13 Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to …
Ezekiel 16:42 So will I make my fury toward you to rest, and my jealousy shall …
and the.
Hosea 8:1,10 Set the trumpet to your mouth. He shall come as an eagle against …
Jeremiah 16:16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, said the LORD, and they shall …
Jeremiah 21:4 Thus said the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons …
Ezekiel 16:37 Behold, therefore I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have …
Ezekiel 23:9,46 Why I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand …
Micah 4:10-13 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a …
Zechariah 14:2,3 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the …
Matthew 22:7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth …
they, etc. or, I shall bind them for their two transgressions, or, in their two habitations.
And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.
an heifer.
Hosea 4:16 For Israel slides back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will …
Jeremiah 50:11 Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, O you destroyers of …
and loveth.
Hosea 2:5 For their mother has played the harlot: she that conceived them has …
Hosea 3:1 Then said the LORD to me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, …
Hosea 9:1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for you have gone …
Deuteronomy 25:4 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the corn.
Romans 16:18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly…
but.
Hosea 11:4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to …
her fair neck. Heb. the beauty of her neck. Judah.
2 Chronicles 28:5-8 Why the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; …
Isaiah 28:24 Does the plowman plow all day to sow? does he open and break the …
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
Sow.
Hosea 8:7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it …
Psalm 126:5,6 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy…
Proverbs 11:18 The wicked works a deceitful work: but to him that sows righteousness …
Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love …
Ecclesiastes 11:6 In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening withhold not your …
Isaiah 32:20 Blessed are you that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither …
James 3:18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
break.
Jeremiah 4:3,4 For thus said the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up …
time.
Psalm 105:4 Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face ever more.
Isaiah 31:1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and …
Isaiah 55:6 Seek you the LORD while he may be found, call you on him while he is near:
Jeremiah 29:12-14 Then shall you call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I …
Jeremiah 50:4 In those days, and in that time, said the LORD, the children of Israel …
Amos 5:4,6,8,15 For thus said the LORD to the house of Israel, Seek you me, and you …
Zephaniah 2:1-3 Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, O nation not desired…
Luke 13:24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say to you, will …
rain.
Hosea 6:3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth …
Psalm 72:6 He shall come down like rain on the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
Isaiah 5:6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor dig; but there …
Isaiah 30:23 Then shall he give the rain of your seed, that you shall sow the …
Isaiah 44:3 For I will pour water on him that is thirsty, and floods on the dry …
Isaiah 45:8 Drop down, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: …
Ezekiel 34:26 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; …
Acts 2:18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those …
1 Corinthians 3:6,7 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase…
Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.
plowed.
Hosea 8:7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it …
Job 4:8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Proverbs 22:8 He that sows iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
Galatians 6:7,8 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that …
eaten.
Proverbs 1:31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled …
Proverbs 12:19 The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue …
Proverbs 18:20,21 A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and …
Proverbs 19:5 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies …
didst.
Psalm 52:7 See, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted …
Psalm 62:10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches …
in the.
Psalm 33:16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man …
Ecclesiastes 9:11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, …
Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.
shall a.
Hosea 13:16 Samaria shall become desolate; for she has rebelled against her God: …
Isaiah 22:1-4 The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you are …
Isaiah 33:14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness has surprised the hypocrites. …
Amos 3:8 The lion has roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD has spoken, …
Amos 9:5 And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that touches the land, and it shall …
and all.
2 Kings 17:16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made …
2 Kings 18:9,10 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was …
Jeremiah 48:41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised…
Nahum 3:12 All your strong holds shall be like fig trees with the first ripe …
Habakkuk 1:10 And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn …
as.
2 Kings 18:33 Has any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out …
2 Kings 19:11-13 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all …
the mother.
Hosea 13:16 Samaria shall become desolate; for she has rebelled against her God: …
Genesis 32:11 Deliver me, I pray you, from the hand of my brother, from the hand …
Isaiah 13:16-18 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; …
Jeremiah 13:14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the …
Nahum 3:10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children …
So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.