Bible Cross References
an heifer
Hosea 4:16
The people of Israel are as stubborn as mules. How can I feed them like lambs in a meadow?
Jeremiah 50:11
The LORD says, "People of Babylonia, you plundered my nation. You are happy and glad, going about like a cow threshing grain or like a neighing horse,
and loveth
Hosea 2:5
(SEE 2:4)
Hosea 3:1
The LORD said to me, "Go again and show your love for a woman who is committing adultery with a lover. You must love her just as I still love the people of Israel, even though they turn to other gods and like to take offerings of raisins to idols."
Hosea 9:1
People of Israel, stop celebrating your festivals like pagans. You have turned away from your God and have been unfaithful to him. All over the land you have sold yourselves like prostitutes to the god Baal and have loved the grain you thought he paid you with!
Deuteronomy 25:4
"Do not muzzle an ox when you are using it to thresh grain.
Romans 16:18
For those who do such things are not serving Christ our Lord, but their own appetites. By their fine words and flattering speech they deceive innocent people.
but
Hosea 11:4
I drew them to me with affection and love. I picked them up and held them to my cheek; I bent down to them and fed them.
Judah
2 Chronicles 28:5-8
5
Because King Ahaz sinned, the LORD his God let the king of Syria defeat him and take a large number of Judeans back to Damascus as prisoners. The LORD also let the king of Israel, Pekah son of Remaliah, defeat Ahaz and kill 120,000 of the bravest Judean soldiers in one day. The LORD, the God of their ancestors, permitted this to happen, because the people of Judah had abandoned him.
6
(SEE 28:5)
7
An Israelite soldier named Zichri killed King Ahaz' son Maaseiah, the palace administrator Azrikam, and Elkanah, who was second in command to the king.
8
Even though the Judeans were their own relatives, the Israelite army captured 200,000 women and children as prisoners and took them back to Samaria, along with large amounts of loot.
Isaiah 28:24
Farmers don't constantly plow their fields and keep getting them ready for planting.