Hosea 4:18

Once the leaders finish drinking, they go off and find prostitutes to sleep with. They love their shameful acts more than honor.

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In The King James Version

Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.

In Context

17Ephraim is bewitched by idols, so leave him alone!

19A wind will carry them away; they will be ashamed of their pagan worship.”

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Cross References

Exodus 23:8Don't accept bribes, for a bribe blinds those who can see, and undermines the evidence of the honest.

Deuteronomy 32:32But their vine comes from the vine of Sodom, from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; they are bitter bunches.

1 Samuel 12:3I stand here before you. Bring any charges you have against me in the presence of the Lord and of his anointed one. Have I taken anyone's ox or donkey? Have I wronged anyone? Have I oppressed anyone? Have I accepted a bribe from anyone to turn a blind eye? Tell me, and I will repay you.”

Psalms 47:9The rulers of the nations gather together with the people of the God of Abraham, for the defenders of the earth belong to God. He is highly honored everywhere.

Isaiah 1:21The city that used to be faithful has turned into a prostitute! Once she operated on principles of justice and followed what was right, but now only murderers live there.

Ezekiel 16:15You were so proud of your beauty that you were unfaithful to me. You thought that because you were so famous you could prostitute yourself and sleep with anyone who passed by. They took your beautiful body for themselves.

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 →

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