TSK · Hosea 13:2

Now look, you are standing in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinners, to increase still further the fierce wrath of the LORD against the Israelites.

I still have left in Israel seven thousand followers who have not bowed their knees to Baal or kissed the images of him.”

He did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done. Amon was guilty of great sin.

Their idols are made of silver and gold– they are man-made.

Why do you insist on being battered? Why do you continue to rebel? Your head has a massive wound, your whole heart is sick.

Look, all his associates will be put to shame; the craftsmen are mere humans. Let them all assemble and take their stand! They will panic and be put to shame.

Gather together and come! Approach together, you refugees from the nations! Those who carry wooden idols know nothing, those who pray to a god that cannot deliver.

Remember this, so you can be brave! Think about it, you rebels!

He decorates it with overlays of silver and gold. He uses hammer and nails to fasten it together so that it will not fall over.

Agricultural Fertility Withdrawn from Israel Yet until now she has refused to acknowledge that I was the one who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil; and that it was I who lavished on her the silver and gold– which they used in worshiping Baal!

That idol was made by a workman– it is not God! The calf idol of Samaria will be broken to bits.

But the more I summoned them, the farther they departed from me. They sacrificed to the Baal idols and burned incense to images.

What good is an idol? Why would a craftsman make it? What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles? Why would its creator place his trust in it and make such mute, worthless things?

But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed!

But evil people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.