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Hosea 4:10 KJV
Hosea · chapter 4 · verse 10
For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.Hosea 4:10 · King James Version
Hosea 4:10 in context
8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
9And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
10For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.
11Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
12My 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- whoredomzânâhto commit adulteryH2181 →
- increasepâratsto break outH6555 →
- enoughsâbaʻto sateH7646 →
- heedshâmarproperly, to hedge aboutH8104 →
- eatʼâkalto eatH398 →
- offʻâzabto loosenH5800 →
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God is here proceeding in his controversy both with the priests and with the people. The people were as those that strove with the priests (Hos 4:4) when they had priests that did their duty;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 6-11