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Ephraim’s whoredom is there; Israel is defiled.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/hosea/6.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim practices prostitution there, and Israel is defiled.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/hosea/6.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there <i>is</i> the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/hosea/6.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: There <i>is</i> the harlotry of Ephraim; Israel is defiled.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/hosea/6.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim’s infidelity is there, Israel has defiled itself.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/hosea/6.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim&#8217s harlotry is there, Israel has defiled itself.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/hosea/6.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim’s harlotry is there, Israel has defiled itself.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/hosea/6.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />In the house of Israel I have seen an appalling thing; Ephraim’s harlotry is there; Israel has defiled itself.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/hosea/6.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />I have seen a horrible thing [sins of every kind] in the house of Israel! Ephraim’s prostitution (idolatry) is there; Israel has defiled itself.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/hosea/6.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />I have seen something horrible in the house of Israel: Ephraim’s promiscuity is there; Israel is defiled.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/hosea/6.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />I have seen something horrible in the house of Israel: Ephraim&#8217s promiscuity is there; Israel is defiled. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/hosea/6.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there whoredom is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/hosea/6.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />I have seen a terrible thing in Israel--you are unfaithful and unfit to worship me. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/hosea/6.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />In the house of Israel I have seen an horrible thing: there whoredom is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/hosea/6.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />"I have seen horrible things in the nation of Israel. Ephraim is acting like a prostitute, and Israel is unclean.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/hosea/6.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />I have seen a horrible thing in Israel: my people have defiled themselves by worshiping idols. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/hosea/6.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />I have seen a horrible evil in the house of Israel— Ephraim's promiscuity. Israel is defiled.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/hosea/6.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />I have seen a disgusting thing in the temple of Israel: there Ephraim practices temple prostitution and Judah defiles itself. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/hosea/6.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/hosea/6.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the prostitution of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.<div class="vheading2"><b>Majority Text Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/hosea/6.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim practices prostitution there, and Israel is defiled.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/hosea/6.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/hosea/6.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, "" There [is] the whoredom of Ephraim—Israel is defiled.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/hosea/6.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, There is the whoredom of Ephraim -- defiled is Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/hosea/6.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />In the house of Israel I saw something horrible: there the fornications to Ephraim, Israel was defiled.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/hosea/6.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the fornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/hosea/6.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />I have seen horrible things in the house of Israel; the fornications of Ephraim are there. Israel has been contaminated.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/hosea/6.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there is found Ephraim’s prostitution, Israel is defiled. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/hosea/6.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim’s whoredom is there, Israel is defiled.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/hosea/6.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: there Ephraim committed whoredom, and Israel was defiled.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/hosea/6.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />In the house of Israel I have seen a stupefying wonder; there Aphreim committed whoredom and Israel was defiled<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/hosea/6.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; There harlotry is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/hosea/6.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />I have seen horrible <i>things</i> there, <i>even</i> the fornication of Ephraim: Israel and Juda are defiled;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/6-10.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xpPG1oLnpGk?start=929" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/hosea/6.htm">Israel and Judah are Unrepentant</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">9</span>Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities. <span class="reftext">10</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/1004.htm" title="1004: bə·ḇêṯ (Prep-b:: N-msc) -- A house. Probably from banah abbreviated; a house.">In the house</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">of Israel</a> <a href="/hebrew/7200.htm" title="7200: rā·’î·ṯî (V-Qal-Perf-1cs) -- To see. A primitive root; to see, literally or figuratively.">I have seen</a> <a href="/hebrew/8186.htm" title="8186: ša·ʿă·rī·rī·yå̄h (Adj-fs) -- A horror, horrible thing. Or shanariyriyah; or shaparurith; feminine from sha'ar in the sense of sa'ar; something fearful.">a horrible thing:</a> <a href="/hebrew/669.htm" title="669: lə·’ep̄·ra·yim (Prep-l:: N-proper-ms) -- Dual of masculine form of 'Ephraath; double fruit; Ephrajim, a son of Joseph; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory.">Ephraim</a> <a href="/hebrew/2184.htm" title="2184: zə·nūṯ (N-fs) -- Fornication. From zanah; adultery, i.e. infidelity, idolatry.">practices prostitution</a> <a href="/hebrew/8033.htm" title="8033: m (Adv) -- There, thither. A primitive particle; there then; often thither, or thence.">there,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">and Israel</a> <a href="/hebrew/2930.htm" title="2930: niṭ·mā (V-Nifal-Perf-3ms) -- To be or become unclean. A primitive root; to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense.">is defiled.</a> </span><span class="reftext">11</span>Also for you, O Judah, a harvest is appointed, when I restore My people from captivity.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/23-14.htm">Jeremiah 23:14</a></span><br />And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns his back on wickedness. They are all like Sodom to Me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/16-46.htm">Ezekiel 16:46-52</a></span><br />Your older sister was Samaria, who lived with her daughters to your north; and your younger sister was Sodom, who lived with her daughters to your south. / And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were. / As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did as you and your daughters have done. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/1-21.htm">Isaiah 1:21</a></span><br />See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/3-8.htm">Jeremiah 3:8-11</a></span><br />She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well. / Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees. / Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/23-1.htm">Ezekiel 23:1-49</a></span><br />Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, / “Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother, / and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/2-4.htm">Amos 2:4</a></span><br />This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/1-5.htm">Micah 1:5-7</a></span><br />All this is for the transgression of Jacob and the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem? / Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of rubble in the open field, a planting area for a vineyard. I will pour her stones into the valley and expose her foundations. / All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/57-3.htm">Isaiah 57:3-9</a></span><br />“But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes! / Whom are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deceit, / who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/5-7.htm">Jeremiah 5:7-9</a></span><br />“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes. / They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife. / Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/22-25.htm">Ezekiel 22:25-28</a></span><br />The conspiracy of the princes in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing its prey. They devour the people, seize the treasures and precious things, and multiply the widows within her. / Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. / Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/23-27.htm">Matthew 23:27-28</a></span><br />Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity. / In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/1-28.htm">Romans 1:28-32</a></span><br />Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. / They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, / slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/5-1.htm">1 Corinthians 5:1-2</a></span><br />It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife. / And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/2-20.htm">Revelation 2:20-23</a></span><br />But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols. / Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling. / Behold, I will cast her onto a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her will suffer great tribulation unless they repent of her deeds. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_peter/2-13.htm">2 Peter 2:13-15</a></span><br />The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you. / Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed. / They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the prostitution of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/2-12.htm">Jeremiah 2:12,13</a></b></br> Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/5-30.htm">Jeremiah 5:30,31</a></b></br> A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/18-13.htm">Jeremiah 18:13</a></b></br> Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.</p><p class="hdg">there.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/4-11.htm">Hosea 4:11,17</a></b></br> Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/5-3.htm">Hosea 5:3</a></b></br> I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, <i>and</i> Israel is defiled.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_kings/12-8.htm">1 Kings 12:8</a></b></br> But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, <i>and</i> which stood before him:</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/hosea/5-3.htm">Defiled</a> <a href="/hosea/6-4.htm">Ephraim</a> <a href="/ezekiel/37-16.htm">Ephraim's</a> <a href="/joshua/17-10.htm">E'phraim's</a> <a href="/hosea/6-9.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/hosea/6-7.htm">False.</a> <a href="/daniel/12-1.htm">Found</a> <a href="/hosea/5-4.htm">Harlotry</a> <a href="/ezekiel/28-19.htm">Horrible</a> <a href="/hosea/5-14.htm">House</a> <a href="/hosea/5-9.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/hosea/5-3.htm">Itself</a> <a href="/hosea/5-4.htm">Prostitution</a> <a href="/daniel/12-11.htm">Unclean</a> <a href="/hosea/5-2.htm">Ways</a> <a href="/hosea/5-4.htm">Whoredom</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/hosea/9-4.htm">Defiled</a> <a href="/hosea/7-1.htm">Ephraim</a> <a href="/hosea/9-11.htm">Ephraim's</a> <a href="/hosea/9-11.htm">E'phraim's</a> <a href="/hosea/7-1.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/hosea/7-13.htm">False.</a> <a href="/hosea/9-10.htm">Found</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-29.htm">Harlotry</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/7-15.htm">Horrible</a> <a href="/hosea/8-1.htm">House</a> <a href="/hosea/7-1.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/hosea/7-9.htm">Itself</a> <a href="/nahum/3-4.htm">Prostitution</a> <a href="/hosea/9-3.htm">Unclean</a> <a href="/hosea/9-8.htm">Ways</a> <a href="/john/8-41.htm">Whoredom</a><div class="vheading2">Hosea 6</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/6-1.htm">Exhortations to repent and hope in God.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">4. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/6-4.htm">A lamentation over those who had sinned after conviction.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">5. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/6-5.htm">Reproofs of obstinate sinners, and threats against them.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The "house of Israel" refers to the Northern Kingdom, which had separated from Judah after Solomon's reign. The term "horrible thing" suggests something detestable and abominable in the eyes of God, often associated with idolatry and covenant unfaithfulness. This echoes the language used in <a href="/jeremiah/5-30.htm">Jeremiah 5:30-31</a>, where similar expressions describe the people's rebellion against God.<p><b>Ephraim practices prostitution there,</b><br>Ephraim, one of the tribes of Israel, often represents the entire Northern Kingdom due to its size and influence. The term "prostitution" is metaphorical, symbolizing spiritual unfaithfulness and idolatry. This imagery is consistent with Hosea's broader theme, where Israel's relationship with God is likened to a marriage, and idolatry is seen as adultery. The practice of idolatry, often involving literal temple prostitution, was prevalent in Canaanite religion, which Israel had adopted, violating the first commandment (<a href="/exodus/20-3.htm">Exodus 20:3</a>).<p><b>and Israel is defiled.</b><br>The defilement of Israel indicates a state of impurity and separation from God. In the Old Testament, defilement often results from contact with idolatry, sin, or anything unclean, rendering one unfit for worship (<a href="/leviticus/18-24.htm">Leviticus 18:24-30</a>). This defilement is not just individual but corporate, affecting the entire nation. The prophetic message here is a call to repentance and a return to covenant faithfulness, as seen in the broader context of Hosea's ministry. The defilement also foreshadows the eventual judgment and exile of the Northern Kingdom, as prophesied in <a href="/2_kings/17-6.htm">2 Kings 17:6-23</a>.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/h/hosea.htm">Hosea</a></b><br>A prophet in the 8th century BC, Hosea was called by God to deliver messages of judgment and hope to the Northern Kingdom of Israel. His life and marriage were symbolic of God's relationship with Israel.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/e/ephraim.htm">Ephraim</a></b><br>One of the tribes of Israel, often used to represent the Northern Kingdom as a whole. Ephraim was known for its significant role in the history and leadership of Israel.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a></b><br>The Northern Kingdom, consisting of ten tribes, which had turned away from God and engaged in idolatry and immorality.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/p/promiscuity.htm">Promiscuity</a></b><br>This term is used metaphorically to describe Israel's unfaithfulness to God through idolatry and alliances with foreign nations.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/d/defilement.htm">Defilement</a></b><br>A state of impurity and corruption, both spiritually and morally, resulting from Israel's unfaithfulness.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_seriousness_of_spiritual_unfaithfulness.htm">The Seriousness of Spiritual Unfaithfulness</a></b><br>Just as God viewed Israel's idolatry as a "horrible thing," we must recognize the gravity of spiritual unfaithfulness in our own lives. Idolatry can take many forms, including materialism, pride, or misplaced priorities.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_call_to_repentance.htm">The Call to Repentance</a></b><br>Hosea's message is a call to return to God. We are reminded of the importance of repentance and the need to turn away from anything that defiles our relationship with Him.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_sin.htm">The Consequences of Sin</a></b><br>Israel's defilement serves as a warning of the consequences of sin. Sin separates us from God and leads to spiritual decay. We must be vigilant in maintaining purity and holiness.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_desire_for_restoration.htm">God's Desire for Restoration</a></b><br>Despite Israel's unfaithfulness, God's ultimate desire is for restoration and reconciliation. This reflects His grace and mercy, encouraging us to seek His forgiveness and healing.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_hosea_6.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Hosea 6</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_are_israel's_other_names.htm">What are the different names for Israel?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_'adam'_in_hosea_6_7_an_anachronism.htm">In Hosea 6:7, is the reference to “Adam” a historical anachronism, and can it be confirmed or disproven archeologically? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_there_proof_sacrifices_failed_in_hosea_5_6.htm">Hosea 5:6 - Is there external historical documentation showing that sacrifices stopped working for Israel during this period?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/proof_of_judah_and_joseph's_restoration.htm">Zechariah 10:6: Where is the historical proof of the promised restoration of both Judah and Joseph on a massive scale?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/hosea/6.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(10) <span class= "bld">House of Israel.</span>--This phrase means Ephraim and Judah subsequently discriminated. The "horrible thing" refers to polluting idolatry. This peculiar word occurs again in Jeremiah. According to the punctuation of the Hebrew the reciter hesitates before pronouncing the "horrible thing" which grated through his teeth.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/hosea/6.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 10.</span> <span class="cmt_word">- I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.</span> The house of Israel comprises <p><span class="note_emph">(1)</span> the ten tribes of the northern kingdom, according to some; it seems more correct <p><span class="note_emph">(2)</span> to understand it of the whole nation, including both the northern and southern kingdoms, in which case the remainder of the verse relates to the northern kingdom of the ten tribes, and the succeeding verse to the southern kingdom of the two tribes. Further, Israel is not synonymous with the parallel Ephraim, as Keil thinks; the latter is the principal tribe which led the way in Israel's apostasy. The "horrible thing" comprehends every sort of crime and abomination; while the" whoredom," literal or spiritual, is specified as an example thereof. (For the explanation of "there," see on ver. 7.) <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/hosea/6-10.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">In the house</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּבֵית֙</span> <span class="translit">(bə·ḇêṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1004.htm">Strong's 1004: </a> </span><span class="str2">A house</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of Israel</span><br /><span class="heb">יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל</span> <span class="translit">(yiś·rā·’êl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> </span><span class="str2">Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc</span><br /><br /><span class="word">I have seen</span><br /><span class="heb">רָאִ֖יתִי</span> <span class="translit">(rā·’î·ṯî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7200.htm">Strong's 7200: </a> </span><span class="str2">To see</span><br /><br /><span class="word">a horrible thing:</span><br /><span class="heb">שַׁעֲרֽוּרִיָּ֑ה</span> <span class="translit">(ša·‘ă·rū·rî·yāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8186.htm">Strong's 8186: </a> </span><span class="str2">A horror, horrible thing</span><br /><br /><span class="word">There</span><br /><span class="heb">שָׁ֚ם</span> <span class="translit">(m)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8033.htm">Strong's 8033: </a> </span><span class="str2">There, then, thither</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Ephraim</span><br /><span class="heb">לְאֶפְרַ֔יִם</span> <span class="translit">(lə·’ep̄·ra·yim)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_669.htm">Strong's 669: </a> </span><span class="str2">Ephraim -- a son of Joseph, also his descendants and their territory</span><br /><br /><span class="word">practices prostitution</span><br /><span class="heb">זְנ֣וּת</span> <span class="translit">(zə·nūṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2184.htm">Strong's 2184: </a> </span><span class="str2">Adultery, infidelity, idolatry</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[and] Israel</span><br /><span class="heb">יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃</span> <span class="translit">(yiś·rā·’êl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> </span><span class="str2">Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc</span><br /><br /><span class="word">is defiled.</span><br /><span class="heb">נִטְמָ֖א</span> <span class="translit">(niṭ·mā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2930.htm">Strong's 2930: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be or become unclean</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/hosea/6-10.htm">Hosea 6:10 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/hosea/6-10.htm">Hosea 6:10 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/hosea/6-10.htm">Hosea 6:10 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/hosea/6-10.htm">Hosea 6:10 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/hosea/6-10.htm">Hosea 6:10 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/hosea/6-10.htm">Hosea 6:10 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/hosea/6-10.htm">Hosea 6:10 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/hosea/6-10.htm">Hosea 6:10 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/hosea/6-10.htm">Hosea 6:10 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/hosea/6-10.htm">Hosea 6:10 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/hosea/6-10.htm">OT Prophets: Hosea 6:10 In the house of Israel I have (Ho Hs Hos.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/hosea/6-9.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Hosea 6:9"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Hosea 6:9" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/hosea/6-11.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Hosea 6:11"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Hosea 6:11" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>