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Hosea 4:16 KJV
Hosea · chapter 4 · verse 16
For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.Hosea 4:16 · King James Version
Hosea 4:16 in context
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.
15Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.
16For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
17Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
18Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- heiferpârâha heiferH6510 →
- backçârarto turn awayH5637 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- feedrâʻâhto tend a flockH7462 →
- lambkebesa ramH3532 →
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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