Hosea 10:15
New International Version
So will it happen to you, Bethel, because your wickedness is great. When that day dawns, the king of Israel will be completely destroyed.

New Living Translation
You will share that fate, Bethel, because of your great wickedness. When the day of judgment dawns, the king of Israel will be completely destroyed.

English Standard Version
Thus it shall be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great evil. At dawn the king of Israel shall be utterly cut off.

Berean Standard Bible
Thus it will be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness. When the day dawns, the king of Israel will be utterly cut off.

King James Bible
So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.

New King James Version
Thus it shall be done to you, O Bethel, Because of your great wickedness. At dawn the king of Israel Shall be cut off utterly.

New American Standard Bible
So it will be done to you at Bethel because of your great wickedness. At dawn the king of Israel will be completely destroyed.

NASB 1995
Thus it will be done to you at Bethel because of your great wickedness. At dawn the king of Israel will be completely cut off.

NASB 1977
Thus it will be done to you at Bethel because of your great wickedness. At dawn the king of Israel will be completely cut off.

Legacy Standard Bible
Thus it will be done to you at Bethel because of your evil of evils. At dawn the king of Israel will be completely ruined.

Amplified Bible
In this way it will be done to you at [idolatrous] Bethel because of your great wickedness; At daybreak the king of Israel will be completely cut off.

Christian Standard Bible
So it will be done to you, Bethel, because of your extreme evil. At dawn the king of Israel will be totally destroyed.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So it will be done to you, Bethel, because of your extreme evil. At dawn the king of Israel will be totally destroyed.

American Standard Version
So shall Beth-el do unto you because of your great wickedness: at daybreak shall the king of Israel be utterly cut off.

Contemporary English Version
Bethel, this will be your fate because of your evil. Israel, at dawn your king will be killed.

English Revised Version
So shall Beth-el do unto you because of your great wickedness: at daybreak shall the king of Israel be utterly cut off.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
This is what will happen to you, Bethel, because you have done many wicked things. At daybreak, the king of Israel will be completely destroyed.

Good News Translation
That is what will happen to you, people of Bethel, because of the terrible evil that you have done. As soon as the battle begins, the king of Israel will die."

International Standard Version
The same will happen to you, Bethel, because of your great evil— early one morning the king of Israel will be totally silenced."

Majority Standard Bible
Thus it will be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness. When the day dawns, the king of Israel will be utterly cut off.

NET Bible
So will it happen to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness! When that day dawns, the king of Israel will be destroyed.

New Heart English Bible
So Bethel will do to you because of your great wickedness. At daybreak the king of Israel will be destroyed.

Webster's Bible Translation
So shall Beth-el do to you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel be utterly cut off.

World English Bible
So Bethel will do to you because of your great wickedness. At daybreak the king of Israel will be destroyed.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Thus has Beth-El done to you, "" Because of the evil of your wickedness, "" In the dawn a king of Israel is utterly cut off!”

Young's Literal Translation
Thus hath Beth-El done to you, Because of the evil of your wickedness, In the dawn cut off utterly is a king of Israel!

Smith's Literal Translation
Thus did the house of God to you from the face of the evil of your evil: in the morning the king of Israel being cut off, was cut off.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
So hath Bethel done to you, because of the evil of your iniquities.

Catholic Public Domain Version
So has Bethel done to you, before the face of your malicious wickedness.

New American Bible
So it will be done to you, Bethel, because of your utter wickedness: At dawn the king of Israel will utterly disappear.

New Revised Standard Version
Thus it shall be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness. At dawn the king of Israel shall be utterly cut off.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
So they did to you, O Beth-el, because of your great wickedness; in a morning was the king of Israel confounded and ashamed.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Thus they did to you, Bayth Eil, from before the wickedness of your wickedness at dawn; the King of Israel was shocked and was ashamed
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
So hath Beth-el done unto you Because of your great wickedness; At daybreak is the king of Israel utterly cut off.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
thus will I do to you, O house of Israel, because of the unrighteousness of your sins.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Retribution for Israel's Sin
14the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be demolished as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces along with their children. 15Thus it will be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness. When the day dawns, the king of Israel will be utterly cut off.

Cross References
2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.

2 Kings 18:9-12
In the fourth year of Hezekiah’s reign, which was the seventh year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it. / And at the end of three years, the Assyrians captured it. So Samaria was captured in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel. / The king of Assyria exiled the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes. ...

Isaiah 7:8
For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered as a people.

Isaiah 8:4
For before the boy knows how to cry ‘Father’ or ‘Mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”

Isaiah 10:11
and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?”

Isaiah 28:1-4
Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower of his glorious splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, the pride of those overcome by wine. / Behold, the Lord has one who is strong and mighty. Like a hailstorm or destructive tempest, like a driving rain or flooding downpour, he will smash that crown to the ground. / The majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards will be trampled underfoot. ...

Jeremiah 4:6-8
Raise a signal flag toward Zion. Seek refuge! Do not delay! For I am bringing disaster from the north, and terrible destruction. / A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited. / So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”

Jeremiah 7:12-15
But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel. / And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer, / therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers. ...

Jeremiah 31:15
This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

Amos 3:14
On the day I punish Israel for their transgressions, I will visit destruction on the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off, and they will fall to the ground.

Amos 5:5
Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.

Micah 1:6
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.

Matthew 11:23
And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.

Matthew 23:37-38
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! / Look, your house is left to you desolate.

Luke 13:34-35
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! / Look, your house is left to you desolate. And I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’”


Treasury of Scripture

So shall Bethel do to you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.

shall Beth-el.

Hosea 10:5
The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.

Amos 7:9-17
And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword…

your great wickedness.

Romans 7:13
Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

in.

Hosea 10:3,7
For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us? …

Isaiah 16:14
But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

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Hosea 10
1. Israel is reproved and threatened for their impiety and idolatry,
12. and exhorted to repentance.














Thus it will be done to you
This phrase indicates a direct consequence or judgment that is to befall the people. The Hebrew root here is "כָּזֹאת" (kazot), which implies a certainty and inevitability of the action. In the context of Hosea, this is a divine pronouncement of judgment. The prophetic nature of this statement underscores the seriousness of Israel's actions and the assuredness of God's response. It serves as a reminder of the biblical principle that actions have consequences, especially when they are in direct opposition to God's commands.

O Bethel
Bethel, meaning "house of God" in Hebrew, was a significant location in Israel's history, originally a place of worship and divine encounters. However, by the time of Hosea, Bethel had become a center of idolatry and false worship. This transformation from a holy site to one of corruption highlights the theme of spiritual adultery that runs throughout Hosea. The mention of Bethel serves as a poignant reminder of how far Israel has strayed from its covenant relationship with God.

because of your great wickedness
The Hebrew word for "wickedness" is "רָעָה" (ra'ah), which conveys a sense of evil or moral corruption. The use of "great" emphasizes the extent and severity of Israel's sin. This phrase reflects the depth of Israel's rebellion against God, which included idolatry, social injustice, and a general abandonment of the covenant. It serves as a warning of the destructive power of sin and the importance of repentance and returning to God.

When the day dawns
This phrase can be understood both literally and metaphorically. Literally, it refers to the coming of a new day, but metaphorically, it signifies the arrival of judgment. The dawning of the day is often used in Scripture to symbolize a time of reckoning or revelation. In Hosea's context, it suggests the imminence of God's judgment upon Israel, urging the people to recognize the urgency of their situation and the need for immediate repentance.

the king of Israel
The king represents the leadership and, by extension, the nation itself. In Hosea's time, the kings of Israel were often complicit in leading the people away from God through political alliances and idolatry. The mention of the king underscores the failure of Israel's leadership to uphold God's laws and the resulting consequences for the nation. It serves as a reminder of the responsibility of leaders to guide their people in righteousness and the impact of their actions on the entire community.

will be utterly cut off
The phrase "utterly cut off" is derived from the Hebrew "יִכָּרֵת" (yikkaret), which means to be destroyed or removed completely. This indicates a total and irreversible judgment. In the context of Hosea, it signifies the end of the northern kingdom of Israel as a result of their persistent sin and rebellion. This serves as a sobering reminder of the seriousness of turning away from God and the ultimate consequences of unrepentant sin. It calls believers to reflect on their own lives and the importance of remaining faithful to God's covenant.

(15) King . . . Cut off.--The close of the kingdom (721 B.C.), already more than once referred to (comp. Hosea 10:7), is here prophesied. Translate, So shall He do to you at Bethel.

In the morning.--Should be, in the early morning Hoshea was utterly cut off, leaving neither root nor branch.

Verse 15. - So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness (margin, the evil of your evil): in a morning shall the King of Israel utterly be cut off. Their coming sufferings were all traceable to their sin. Bethel, the principal place of calf-worship, was the cause of their coming calamities, not the place itself, but the wickedness of which it was the scene. The real cause was the great and crowning wickedness practiced there. Bethel, once the house of God, would in consequence become another Beth-arbel, the house of the ambush of God. In the morning, when perhaps a season of prosperity seemed beginning to dawn, or at an early dale and in a speedy manner, quickly as the morning dawn gives place before the rising sun, the king, Hoshea, or perhaps no particular king, but merely the representative of the royal office, would be cut off-entirely cut off. Thus their main refuge would come to an ignominious end, bringing along with it the frustration of all their hopes and the conclusion of their mistaken and misplaced confidences.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Thus
כָּ֗כָה (kā·ḵāh)
Adverb
Strong's 3602: Just so

it will be done
עָשָׂ֤ה (‘ā·śāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

to you,
לָכֶם֙ (lā·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

O Bethel,
אֵ֔ל (’êl)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 1008: Bethel -- 'house of God', a city in Ephraim, also a place in southern Judah

because of
מִפְּנֵ֖י (mip·pə·nê)
Preposition-m | Noun - common plural construct
Strong's 6440: The face

your great
רָֽעַתְכֶ֑ם (rā·‘aṯ·ḵem)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil

wickedness.
רָעַ֣ת (rā·‘aṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil

When the day dawns,
בַּשַּׁ֕חַר (baš·ša·ḥar)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7837: Dawn

the king
מֶ֥לֶךְ (me·leḵ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4428: A king

of Israel
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

will be utterly
נִדְמֹ֥ה (niḏ·mōh)
Verb - Nifal - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 1820: To be dumb, silent, to fail, perish, trans, to destroy

cut off.
נִדְמָ֖ה (niḏ·māh)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1820: To be dumb, silent, to fail, perish, trans, to destroy


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