Hosea 4:17
Ephraim is wedded to idols. Leave them alone!
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
In Context
18When their drinking is over they sleep with the cult prostitutes, their rulers love shameful ways.
Cross References
Hosea 4:4Yet let no one bring charges, let none accuse, for your people are like those, who bring charges against a priest.
Hosea 12:1Ephraim herds the wind and hunts the sirocco. All day long they heap up falsehood and fraud, make a treaty with Assyria, and sends tribute of olive oil to Egypt.
Matthew 15:14Leave them be; they are but blind guides; and, if one blind person guides another, both of them 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 →