Hosea 4:17
Ephraim is joined to idols, leave him alone.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
In Context
16For Israel has turned aside as a stubborn heifer, || Now YHWH feeds them as a lamb in a large place.
Cross References
Hosea 4:4Only, let no one strive, nor reprove a man, || And your people [are] as those striving with a priest.
Hosea 12:1“Ephraim is enjoying wind, || And is pursuing an east wind, || All the day he multiplies lying and spoiling, || And they make a covenant with Asshur, || And oil is carried to Egypt.
Matthew 15:14leave them alone, they are guides—blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, 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 →