Hosea 4:17
Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
In Context
18Their drink has become sour. They play the harlot continually. Her rulers dearly love shame.
Cross References
Hosea 4:4Yet, let no man strive, nor let any man reprove, for thy people are as those who strive with the priest.
Hosea 12:1Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. And they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.
Matthew 15:14Leave them. They are blind leaders of blind men, and if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a ditch.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 4:13-19
The Sins of the Priests and the People; Warning to Judah. ( b. c. 758.) 12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God. 13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery. 14 I will not punish… Read the whole commentary →