Hosea 4:12

A Conservative Version

My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declares to them, for the spirit of whoredom has caused them to err, and they have played the harlot, [departing] from under their God.

Cross References

Hosea 5:4

Their doings will not allow them to turn to their God, for the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they do not know LORD.

Jeremiah 2:27

who say to a block of wood, Thou are my father, and to a stone, Thou have brought me forth. For they have turned their back to me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

Habakkuk 2:19

Woe to him who says to the wood, Awake, to the dumb stone, Arise! Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

Deuteronomy 31:16

And LORD said to Moses, Behold, thou shall sleep with thy fathers. And this people will rise up, and play the harlot after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant whic

Numbers 15:39

And it shall be to you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of LORD, and do them, and that ye not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to play the harlot,

Micah 2:11

If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies, [saying], I will prophesy to thee of wine and of strong drink, he shall even be the prophet of this people.

Hosea 9:1

Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy like the peoples, for thou have played the harlot, [departing] from thy God. Thou have loved hire upon every grain-floor.

Ezekiel 21:21

For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows to and fro. He consulted the teraphim. He looked in the liver.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are together brutish and foolish, the instruction of idols! It is but a block of wood.

Psalm 73:27

For, lo, those who are far from thee shall perish. Thou have destroyed all those who go a whoring from thee.

2 Chronicles 21:13

but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot, like the house of Ahab did, and also have slain thy brothers of thy father's house who were better than thy

Leviticus 20:5

then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the harlot after him, to play the harlot with Molech, from among their people.

Leviticus 17:7

And they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the he-goats, after which they play the harlot. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.

Psalm 106:39

Thus they were defiled with their works, and played the harlot in their doings.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria shall not save us. We will not ride upon horses, nor will we say any more to the work of our hands, Our gods. For in thee the fatherless finds mercy.

Judges 18:5

And they said to him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.

2 Kings 17:7

And it was so, because the sons of Israel had sinned against LORD their God who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

Jeremiah 23:13

And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria. They prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

Ezekiel 20:32

And that which comes into your mind shall not be at all, in that ye say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

Hosea 6:10

I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel. Whoredom is there in Ephraim; Israel is defiled.