Hosea 9:4

They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him, but will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat will be defiled. For their bread will be for themselves; it will not enter the house of the LORD.

Cross References (28)

  • Jeremiah 6:20 (5)

    What use to Me is frankincense from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; yo

  • Deuteronomy 26:14 (5)

    I have not eaten any of the sacred portion while in mourning, or removed any of it while unclean, or offered any of it f

  • Hosea 8:13 (5)

    Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will re

  • Haggai 2:13–14 (4)

    So Haggai asked, “If one who is defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?” “Yes, it

  • Hosea 3:4 (3)

    For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or

  • Joel 2:14 (3)

    Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him—grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.

  • Ezekiel 24:17 (3)

    Groan quietly; do not mourn for the dead. Put on your turban and strap your sandals on your feet; do not cover your lips

  • John 6:51 (2)

    I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, wh

  • Nehemiah 8:9–12 (2)

    Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them,

  • Leviticus 21:8 (2)

    You are to regard him as holy, since he presents the food of your God. He shall be holy to you, because I the LORD am ho

  • Amos 5:22 (2)

    Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fatten

  • Malachi 1:9–10 (2)

    “But ask now for God’s favor. Will He be gracious? Since this has come from your hands, will He show you favor?” asks th

  • Amos 4:4–5 (2)

    “Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three da

  • Leviticus 17:11 (2)

    For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for your souls upon the altar; f

  • Leviticus 21:21 (2)

    No descendant of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall approach to present the food offerings to the LORD. Since he ha

  • Ezekiel 24:22 (2)

    Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners.

  • Leviticus 21:6 (2)

    They must be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. Because they present to the LORD the food offering

  • Numbers 28:2 (2)

    “Command the Israelites and say to them: See that you present to Me at its appointed time the food for My food offerings

  • Leviticus 21:17 (2)

    “Say to Aaron, ‘For the generations to come, none of your descendants who has a physical defect may approach to offer th

  • Isaiah 1:11–15 (2)

    “What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fa

  • Exodus 40:23 (2)

    He arranged the bread on it before the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded him.

  • Isaiah 57:6 (2)

    Your portion is among the smooth stones of the valley; indeed, they are your lot. Even to them you have poured out a dri

  • Joel 1:13 (2)

    Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers

  • Isaiah 66:3 (2)

    Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; who

  • Malachi 2:13 (2)

    And this is another thing you do: You cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping and groaning, because He no l

  • Amos 8:11–12 (2)

    Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thi

  • Numbers 19:11 (1)

    Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days.

  • Numbers 4:7 (1)

    Over the table of the Presence they are to spread a blue cloth and place the plates and cups on it, along with the bowls