Hosea 13:2 References

2 And now they sin more and more, And make for themselves amolten images, Idols bskillfully made from their silver, All of them the cwork of craftsmen. They say of them, "Let the men who sacrifice kiss the dcalves!"

b Isaiah 44:17-20

Isaiah 44

17 But the rest of it he amakes into a god, his graven image. He falls down before it and worships; he also bprays to it and says, "Deliver me, for you are my god."

18 They do not aknow, nor do they understand, for He has bsmeared over their eyes so that they cannot see and their hearts so that they cannot comprehend.

19 No one recalls, nor is there aknowledge or understanding to say, "I have burned half of it in the fire and also have baked bread over its coals. I roast meat and eat it. Then I make the rest of it into an babomination, I fall down before a block of wood!"

20 He afeeds on ashes; a bdeceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver himself, nor say, "cIs there not a lie in my right hand?"

Other references for Hosea 13:2

a Isaiah 46:6, Jeremiah 10:4, Hosea 2:8

c Hosea 8:6

d Hosea 8:5, Hosea 8:6, Hosea 10:5