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Hosea 5:4 KJV
Hosea · chapter 5 · verse 4
They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.Hosea 5:4 · King James Version
Hosea 5:4 in context
2And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.
4They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.
5And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.
6They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- whoredomszânûwnadulteryH2183 →
- doingsmaʻălâlan actH4611 →
- spiritrûwachwindH7307 →
- framenâthanto give, used with greatest latitude of applicationH5414 →
- midstqerebproperly, the nearest partH7130 →
- knownyâdaʻto knowH3045 →
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Here, I. All orders and degrees of men are cited to appear and answer to such things as shall be laid to their charge (Hos 5:1): Hear you this, O priests! whether in holy orders (as those in Judah, and perhaps many in Israel too, for in the ten tribes there were divers cities of priests and Levites, who, it is…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-7