Hosea 11:2
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images."
Word-by-Word Analysis
קָרָא
qârâʼ
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
יָלַךְ
yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
זָבַח
zâbach
to slaughter an animal (usually in sacrifice)
שָׂרַף
sâraph
to be (causatively, set) on fire
Key Terms in This Verse
קָרָא qârâʼ
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
Study H7121 →יָלַךְ yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
Study H3212 →Cross References
Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work...
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel’s table.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and...
Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.
So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israe...
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children o...
And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
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