Hosea 12:11
Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
Context
This verse from Hosea Chapter 12 connects to 10 cross-references. Ephraim feeds on wind and pursues the east wind, multiplying lies and violence. Jacob deceived his brother and strove with God. But God will make Ephraim live in tents as in the wilderness again. The Lord God of hosts is …
Other Translations
Is Gilead iniquity? they are altogether false; in Gilgal they sacrifice bullocks; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field.
Surely Gilead <FI>is<Fi> iniquity, Only, vanity they have been, In Gilead bullocks they have sacrificed, Also their altars <FI>are<Fi> as heaps, on the furrows of a field.
In Gilead there is evil. They are quite without value; in Gilgal they make offerings of oxen; truly their altars are like masses of stones in the hollows of a ploughed field.
Cross References
And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel …
And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord their God, and they …
And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the Lord carried away before …
For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; …
But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the …
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye …
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.