Hosea 4:13 KJV
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.
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...
Parallel Passages
- Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).
Cross References
- Isaiah 1:29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
- Jeremiah 3:6 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
- Ezekiel 6:13 Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.
- Amos 7:17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.
- 2 Samuel 12:10–12 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. …
- Job 31:9–10 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; …
- Isaiah 57:5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
- Isaiah 57:7 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
- Jeremiah 2:20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
- Jeremiah 3:13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
- Ezekiel 16:16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
- Ezekiel 16:25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
- Ezekiel 20:28–29 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings. …
- Hosea 2:13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
- Hosea 11:2 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
- Romans 1:23–28 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. …
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Topics
- Church Backslidden
- Elm General scriptures concerning
- 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
- Mountain Used for idolatrous worship
- Poplar A tree
- Women Zeal of, in licentious practices of idolatry
Timeline
- Timeline of the Bible808–698 BC · Hosea, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, and Jeroboam II
Strong’s Numbers
- They sacrifice זָבַח zâbach
- upon the tops רֹאשׁ rôʼsh
- of the mountains הַר har
- and burn incense קָטַר qâṭar
- upon the hills גִּבְעָה gibʻâh
- under oaks אַלּוֹן ʼallôwn
- and poplars לִבְנֶה libneh
- and elms אֵלָה ʼêlâh
- because the shadow צֵל tsêl
- thereof is good טוֹב ṭôwb
- therefore your daughters בַּת bath
- shall commit whoredom זָנָה zânâh
- and your spouses כַּלָּה kallâh
- shall commit adultery נָאַף nâʼaph
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