Hosea 4:17

Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.

Updated King James Version

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Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.

In Context

16For Israel slides back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

18Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give all of you.

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Cross References

Hosea 4:4Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for your people are as they that strive with the priest.

Hosea 12:1Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind: he daily increases lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.

Matthew 15:14Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the 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 →

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