Hakim-hakim 18:17-18

18:17 The five men who had gone to spy out the land broke in and stole ¹  the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, while the priest was standing at the entrance to the gate with the six hundred fully armed men. ²  18:18 When these men broke into Micah’s house and stole ³  the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

Hosea 8:5

8:5 O Samaria, he has rejected your calf idol!

My anger burns against them!

They will not survive much longer without being punished, ⁴ 

even though they are Israelites!

Hosea 9:1

Fertility Cult Festivals Have Intoxicated Israel

9:1 O Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly ⁵  like the nations,

for you are unfaithful ⁶  to your God.

You love to receive a prostitute's wages ⁷ 

on all the floors where you thresh your grain.

Hosea 9:3

Assyrian Exile Will Reverse the Egyptian Exodus

9:3 They will not remain in the Lord’s land.

Ephraim will return to Egypt;

they will eat ritually unclean food in Assyria.

Hosea 9:11

The Fertility Worshipers Will Become Infertile

9:11 Ephraim will be like a bird;

what they value ⁸  will fly away.

They will not bear children –

they will not enjoy pregnancy –

they will not even conceive! ⁹ 

[18:17]  ¹ tn Heb “went up, went in there, took.”

[18:17]  ² tn Heb “six hundred men, equipped with the weapons of war.”

[18:18]  ³ tn Heb “These went into Micah’s house and took.”

[8:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “How long will they be able to be free from punishment?” This rhetorical question affirms that Israel will not survive much longer until God punishes it.

[9:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “do not rejoice unto jubilation”; KJV “Rejoice not…for joy”; NASB “Do not rejoice…with exultation.”

[9:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “you have committed adultery”; NRSV “you have played the whore.”

[9:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “you love the wages of the prostitute” (NIV similar); NAB “loving a harlot’s hire.”

[9:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “their glory” (so NASB); TEV “Israel’s greateness.”

[9:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “no childbearing, no pregnancy, no conception.” The preposition מִן (min) prefixed to the three parallel nouns functions in a privative sense, indicating deprivation (BDB 583 s.v. מִן 7).