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Hosea 4:12 KJV
Hosea · chapter 4 · verse 12
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.Hosea 4:12 · King James Version
Hosea 4:12 in context
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.
13They 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.
14I 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- declarethnâgadproperly, to frontH5046 →
- whoredomszânûwnadulteryH2183 →
- whoringzânâhto commit adulteryH2181 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- stocksʻêtsa treeH6086 →
- spiritrûwachwindH7307 →
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In these verses we have, as before, I. The sins charged upon the people of Israel, for which God had a controversy with them, and they are, 1. Spiritual whoredom, or idolatry. They have in them a spirit of whoredoms, a strong inclination to that sin; the bent and bias of their hearts are that way;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 12-19