Hosea 4:13

They 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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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

12My 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

14I will not punish your daughters when they choose to commit sexual immorality, 1 nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. 1 For the men also give themselves to the prostitutes, 1 and they offer sacrifices so they can commit immoral acts with sacred prostitutes. 1 So this people who does not understand will be thrown down. 1

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Cross References

2 Samuel 12:10So now the sword will never leave your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite as your wife.'

2 Kings 23:7He cleared out the rooms of the cultic prostitutes who were in the temple of Yahweh, where the women wove garments for Asherah.

Isaiah 1:29“For you will be ashamed of the sacred oak trees that you desired, 1 and you will be embarrassed by the gardens that you have chosen. 1

Isaiah 57:7You prepared your bed on a high mountain; 1 you also went up there to offer sacrifices. 1

Jeremiah 3:6Then Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Do you see what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up every high hill and under every leafy tree, and there she has acted like a prostitute.

Ezekiel 6:13Then you will know that I am Yahweh, when their dead lie among their idols, around their altars, on every high hill—on all the mountain peaks, and under every flourishing tree and thick oak—the places where they burned incense to all their idols.

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 →

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