Hosea 4:12

My people consult their wooden idols, 1 and their walking sticks give them prophecies. 1 For a mind of promiscuity has misled them, 1 and they have acted as prostitutes instead of being faithful to their God. 1

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

11They love sexual promiscuity, wine, and new wine, which have taken away their understanding. 1

13They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains 1 and burn incense on the hills, 1 under oaks, poplars and terebinths, 1 because the shade is good. 1 So your daughters commit sexual immorality, 1 and your daughters-in-law commit adultery. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 17:7The people must no longer offer their sacrifices to goat idols, for which they act as prostitutes. This will be a permanent statute for them throughout their people's generations.'

Numbers 15:39It will be a special reminder to you, when you may look at it, of all my commandments, to carry them out so that you do not look to your own heart and your own eyes and prostitute yourselves to them.

Judges 18:5They said to him, “Please seek the advice of God, so we may know whether the journey we are going on will be successful.”

2 Chronicles 21:13but have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to act like a prostitute, as the house of Ahab did—and because you have also killed your brothers in your father's family, men who were better than yourself—

Isaiah 44:18They do not know, nor do they understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see, and their hearts cannot perceive. 1

Jeremiah 2:27These are the ones who say to the tree, 'You are my father,' and to the stone, 'You gave birth to me.' 1 For their back faces me and not their faces. Nevertheless, they say in the time of troubles, 'Arise and save us!' 1

Matthew Henry on Hosea 4:7-12

Grounds of God's Controversy with Israel; The Sins of the Priests and People. ( b. c. 758.) 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. 7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame. 8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. 9 And there shall… Read the whole commentary →

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