Hosea 13:1
What does Hosea 13:1 mean?
A plain-English look at Hosea 13:1 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000When Ephraim spake, there was trembling; he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.
KJV
King James Version · 1611When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901When Ephraim spake, there was trembling; he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949When the words of my law came from Ephraim, he was lifted up in Israel; but when he did evil through the Baal, death overtook him.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862When Ephraim speaketh tremblingly, He hath been lifted up in Israel, When he becometh guilty in Baal he dieth.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752When Ephraim spoke, a horror seized Israel: and he sinned in Baal, and died.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he exalted himself in Israel: but he trespassed through Baal, and he died.
Context
v.1This passage
v.2And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Kings 17:16
And they forsook all the commandments of Jehovah their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
- Genesis 2:17
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
- 1 Kings 12:25
Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and he went out from thence, and built Penuel.
- Romans 5:12
Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:—
- 1 Kings 18:18
And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of Jehovah, and thou hast followed the Baalim.
- Proverbs 18:12
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty; And before honorgoethhumility.
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