Hosea 4:16 KJV
For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
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
- Stubbornness (1)See the chain from Psalms 32:9 · 4 links
- BackslidingSee the chain from Proverbs 14:14 · 8 links
Cross References
- Leviticus 26:33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
- 1 Samuel 15:11 It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
- Isaiah 5:17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
- Isaiah 7:21–25 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep; …
- Isaiah 22:18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.
- 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.
- Jeremiah 3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
- Jeremiah 3:11 And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
- Jeremiah 5:6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
- Jeremiah 7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
- Jeremiah 8:5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
- Jeremiah 14:7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
- Hosea 11:7 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
- Zechariah 7:11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
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Topics
- Backsliders Backsliding of Israel
- Church Backslidden
- Heifer Intractable
- Idolatry Warnings against, and punishments of
- Israel, prophecies concerning Of captivity, famine, and judgments
- Jotham The moral condition of Israel during his reign
Timeline
- Timeline of the Bible808–698 BC · Hosea, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, and Jeroboam II
Bible Dictionary
Strong’s Numbers
- For Israel יִשְׂרָאֵל Yisrâʼêl
- slideth back סָרַר çârar
- as a backsliding סָרַר çârar
- heifer פָּרָה pârâh
- now the LORD יְהֹוָה Yᵉhôvâh
- will feed רָעָה râʻâh
- them as a lamb כֶּבֶשׂ kebes
- in a large place מֶרְחָב merchâb
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