Księga Ozeasza 8:11

Nowe Przymierze Zaremba

Tak, Efraim namnożył ołtarzy dla ofiar za grzech, a stały mu się one ołtarzami grzechu.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Bo Efraim pobudował wiele ołtarzów ku grzeszeniu; pobudowane w nim są ołtarze ku grzeszeniu.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Bo iż rozmnożył Efraim ołtarze ku grzeszeniu, stały mu się one ołtarze ku grzeszeniu.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Tak, Efraim mnożył sobie ofiarnicerozgrzeszenia, ale one zamieniły mu się na ofiarnice grzechu.

Biblia Tysiąclecia
Bo iż rozmnożył Efraim ołtarze ku grzeszeniu, stały mu się one ołtarze ku grzeszeniu.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Ponieważ Efraim pomnożył ołtarze, by grzeszyć, te ołtarze staną się dla niego powodem grzechu.

Biblia Warszawska
Zaiste, Efraim zbudował sobie liczne ołtarze, lecz stały się one ołtarzami grzechu.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

many: Hosea 10:1, Hosea 10:2, Hosea 10:8, Hosea 12:11, Isaiah 10:10, Isaiah 10:11

altars: Deuteronomy 4:28, Jeremiah 16:13

Reciprocal: Exodus 32:5 - Aaron Deuteronomy 9:21 - I took Isaiah 31:7 - for a sin Hosea 5:3 - Ephraim

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Because Ephraim hath, made many altars to sin,.... Not with an intention to commit sin, but to offer sacrifice for sin, and make atonement for it, as they thought; but these altars being erected for the sake of idols, and sacrifices offered on them to them, they sinned in so doing, and were the cause of sin in others, who were drawn into it by their example; as they were made to sin, or drawn into it, by Jeroboam their king, These altars were those set up at Dan and Bethel, and in all high places, and tops of mountains, where they sacrificed to idols; and which was contrary to the express command of God, who required sacrifice only at one place, and on one altar, Deuteronomy 12:5; typical of the one altar Christ, and his alone sacrifice, who is the only Mediator between God and man; and they are guilty of the same crime as Ephraim here, who make use of more, or neglect him;

altars shall be unto him for sin; either these same altars, and the sacrifices offered on them, shall be reckoned and imputed to him as sins, trod shall be the cause of his condemnation and punishment: or, "let the altars be unto him for sin", so some n; since he will have them, let him have them, and go on in sinning, till he has filled up the measure of his sins, and brought on him just condemnation; or else other altars are meant, even in the land of Assyria, where, since they were so fond of multiplying altars, they should have altars enough to sin at, whereby their sins would be increased, and their punishment for them aggravated. The Targum is,

"seeing the house of Ephraim hath multiplied altars to sin, the altars of their idols shall he to them for a stumbling block,''

or ruin; so sin is taken in a different sense, both for guilt, and the punishment of it.

n היו לו מזבחות לחטא "santo ergo illi altaria ad peccandum", Rivet.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall indeed be unto him to sin - that is, they shall be proved to him to be so, by the punishment which they shall draw upon him. The prophet had first shown them their folly in forsaking God for the help of man; now he shows them the folly of attempting to “secure themselves by their great shew and pretences of religion and devotion in a false way.” God had appointed “one” altar at Jerusalem. There He willed the sacrifices to be offered, which He would accept. To multiply altars, much more to set up altars against the one altar, was to multiply sin. Hosea charges Israel elsewhere with this multiplying of altars, as a grievous sin. “According to the multitude of his fruit, he hath increased altars. Their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field” Hosea 10:1; Hosea 12:11. They pretended doubtless, that they did it for a religious end, that they might thereon offer sacrifices for the expiation of their sins and appeasing of God. They endeavored to unite their own selfwill and the outward service of God. Therein they might deceive themselves; but they could not deceive God. He calls their act by its true name. To make altars at their own pleasure and to offer sacrifices upon them, under any pretence whatever, was to sin. So then, as many altars as they reared, so often did they repeat their sin; and this sin should be their only fruit. They should be, but only for sin. So God says of the two calves, “This thing became a sin” 1 Kings 12:30, and of the indiscriminate consecration of priests (not of the family of Aaron), “This thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off and to destroy it from the face of the earth” 1 Kings 13:33-34.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 8:11. Many altars to sin — Though it does not appear that the Jews in Babylon were obliged to worship the idols of the country, except in the case mentioned by Daniel, yet it was far otherwise with the Israelites in Assyria, and the other countries of their dispersion. Because they had made many altars to sin while they were in their own land, they were obliged to continue in the land of their captivity a similar system of idolatry against their will. Thus they felt and saw the evil of their idolatry, without power to help themselves.