Hosea 4:12 KJV
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.
Matthew Henry
- Idolatry is reproved, and Judah is admonishedThe people consulted images, and not the Divine word. This would lead to disorder and sin. Thus men prepare scourges for themselves, and vice is spread...
Thompson Chains
- Vanity of IdolsSee the chain from Jeremiah 10:5 · 8 links
- Idolatry (3)See the chain from Deuteronomy 4:28 · 7 links
- EstrangementSee the chain from Psalms 58:3 · 5 links
- AdulteryLink 8 of 13 · next Matthew 5:27
- D. Forsaking God (2)See the chain from Deuteronomy 28:2 · 1 link
- High Places (2)See the chain from Leviticus 26:30 · 4 links
- GrovesSee the chain from Deuteronomy 12:2 · 12 links
- OaksSee the chain from Genesis 35:4 · 6 links
- FilthinessSee the chain from Ezra 9:11 · 6 links
- ForsakingSee the chain from 2 Chronicles 15:2 · 1 link
Cross References
- Jeremiah 2:27 Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
- Hosea 5:4 They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.
- Isaiah 44:18–20 They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand. …
- Habakkuk 2:19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
- Leviticus 17:7 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.
- Leviticus 20:5 Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
- Numbers 15:39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
- Deuteronomy 31:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
- 2 Chronicles 21:13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself:
- Psalms 73:27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
- Jeremiah 3:1–3 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD. …
- Jeremiah 10:8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
- Ezekiel 16:1–63 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, …
- Ezekiel 21:21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
- Ezekiel 23:1–49 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, …
- Hosea 9:1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
- Micah 2:11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:9–11 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, …
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Topics
- Church Backslidden
- Idolatry Licentiousness of
- Israel, prophecies concerning Of captivity, famine, and judgments
- Jotham The moral condition of Israel during his reign
- Minister, Christian False and corrupt
- Sorcery By rods
Timeline
- Timeline of the Bible808–698 BC · Hosea, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, and Jeroboam II
Bible Dictionary
- God(A.S. and Dutch God; Dan. Gud; Ger. Gott), the name of the Divine Being. It is the rendering (1) of the Hebrew ’El, from a word meaning...
Strong’s Numbers
- My people עַם ʻam
- ask שָׁאַל shâʼal
- counsel at their stocks עֵץ ʻêts
- and their staff מַקֵּל maqqêl
- declareth נָגַד nâgad
- unto them: for the spirit רוּחַ rûwach
- of whoredoms זָנוּן zânûwn
- hath caused them to err תָּעָה tâʻâh
- and they have gone a whoring זָנָה zânâh
- from under their God אֱלֹהִים ʼĕlôhîym
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