Hosea 4:17
Ephraim, joined with idols, has laid stumbling blocks in his own way.
LXX2012 (US English)
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 any one may plead, nor any one reprove another; but my people are as a priest spoken against.
Hosea 12:1But Ephraim is an evil spirit, he has chased the east wind all the day: he has multiplied empty and vain things, and made a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil has gone in the way of traffic into Egypt.
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 →