Contradictions and Paradoxes in Hosea 9:10

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Hosea 9:10 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Hosea 9:10. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the prophet Hosea, God found the people of Israel like a yummy treat in the middle of nowhere and saw them as something special, like the first ripe fruit on a fig tree. However, they started worshiping a false god named Baalpeor, and this made them do wrong things because they loved doing those bad things.

Hosea 9:10: I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: [but] they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto [that] shame; and [their] abominations were according as they loved.

Contradiction with Jeremiah 2:21

This verse speaks of God planting Israel as a noble vine, wholly a right seed, which contrasts with the depiction of Israel in Hosea 9:10 as becoming detestable.

Jeremiah 2:21: Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

Contradiction with Isaiah 5:4

This verse questions why the vineyard (Israel) brought forth wild grapes despite all the care given, whereas Hosea 9:10 describes Israel as initially delightful to God.

Isaiah 5:4: What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

Contradiction with Psalm 80:8-9

This passage describes God bringing a vine (Israel) out of Egypt and planting it, focusing on divine nurturing opposed to the disappointment expressed in Hosea 9:10.

Psalm 80:8-9: Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

Contradiction with Deuteronomy 32:10-12

These verses describe God’s care and protection of Israel in the wilderness, contrasting with the turn to idolatry highlighted in Hosea 9:10.

Deuteronomy 32:10-12: He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. [led: or, compassed]
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