Hosea 4:17
Ephraim, joined with idols, has laid stumbling blocks in his own way.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
In Context
16For Israel was maddened like a mad heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a wide place.
Cross References
Hosea 4:4that neither anyone may plead, nor anyone reprove another: but my people are as a priest spoken against.
Hosea 12:1Ephraim has compassed me with falsehood, and the house of Israel and Judah with ungodliness: but now God knows them, and they shall be called God’s holy people.
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 →