Hosea 4:14 KJV
I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
Thou and Ye
- your more than one
In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?
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
- Harlots (2)Link 6 of 8 · next Luke 15:30
- No UnderstandingSee the chain from Psalms 32:9 · 8 links
- Fall of the WickedLink 5 of 6 · next Amos 8:14
Cross References
- Hosea 4:1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
- Deuteronomy 23:17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
- 1 Kings 14:23–24 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. …
- 1 Kings 15:12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- 2 Kings 23:7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
- Proverbs 28:5 Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
- Isaiah 1:5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
- 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. …
- Isaiah 56:11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
- Daniel 12:10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
- Hosea 4:5–6 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother. …
- Hosea 4:17 Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
- Hosea 14:9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
- John 8:43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
- Romans 3:11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
- 1 Corinthians 6:16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
- Ephesians 4:18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
- Hebrews 12:8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
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Topics
- Blindness Spiritual
- Church Backslidden
- Idolatry Licentiousness of
- Israel, prophecies concerning Of captivity, famine, and judgments
- Jotham The moral condition of Israel during his reign
- Sodomites And is the translation of a Hebrew feminine form of the word translated elsewhere “sodomite”
- 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
Hebrew and Strong’s
- I will not punish לֹא lōʾ Negative אֶפְקוֹד ʾepqôd פָּקַד Verb · qal imperfect, first person common singular
- your daughters עַל ʿal Preposition בְּנוֹתֵיכֶם bĕnôtêkem בַּת Noun · feminine plural construct · with suffix: second person masculine plural
- when they commit whoredom כִּי kî Conjunction תִזְנֶינָה tiznênâ זָנָה Verb · qal imperfect, third person feminine plural
- nor your spouses וְעַל wĕʿal Preposition · with and כַּלּוֹתֵיכֶם kallôtêkem כַּלָּה Noun · feminine plural construct · with suffix: second person masculine plural
- when they commit adultery כִּי kî Conjunction תְנָאַפְנָה tĕnāʾapnâ נָאַף Verb · piel imperfect, third person feminine plural כִּי kî Conjunction
- for themselves are separated יְפָרֵדוּ yĕpārēdû פָּרַד Verb · piel imperfect, third person masculine plural
- with whores עִם ʿim Preposition הַזֹּנוֹת hazzōnôt זָנָה Verb · qal active participle, feminine plural · with the
- and they sacrifice הֵם hēm Pronoun · third person masculine plural יְזַבֵּחוּ yĕzabbēḥû זָבַח Verb · piel imperfect, third person masculine plural
- with harlots וְעִם wĕʿim Preposition · with and הַקְּדֵשׁוֹת haqqĕdēšôt קְדֵשָׁה Adjective · feminine plural · with the
- therefore the people וְעָם wĕʿām עַם Noun · masculine singular · with and
- doth not understand לֹא lōʾ Negative יָבִין yābîn בִּין Verb · qal imperfect, third person masculine singular
- shall fall יִלָּבֵט yillābēṭ לָבַט Verb · niphal imperfect, third person masculine singular
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