Hosea 4:18
He has chosen the Chananites: they have grievously gone a-whoring: they have loved dishonour through her insolence.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
17Ephraim, joined with idols, has laid stumbling-blocks in his own way.
19Thou art a blast of wind in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their altars.
Cross References
Exodus 23:8And thou shalt not receive gifts; for gifts blind the eyes of the seeing, and corrupt just words.
Deuteronomy 32:32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and their vine-branch of Gomorrha: their grape is a grape of gall, their cluster is one of bitterness.
1 Samuel 12:3Behold, here am I, answer against me before the Lord and before his anointed: whose calf have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom of you have I oppressed? or whom have I been violent with? or from whose hand have I taken a + 12:3 Gr. propitiation.bribe, even to a sandal? bear witness against me, and I will make restitution to you.
Psalms 47:9As we have heard, so have we also seen, in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God has founded it for ever. Pause.
Isaiah 1:21How has the faithful city Sion, once full of judgment, become a harlot! wherein righteousness lodged, but now murderers.
Ezekiel 16:15Thou didst trust in thy beauty, and didst go a-whoring because of thy renown, and didst pour out thy fornication on every passer by.
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 →