Hosea 4:12

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of promiscuity leads them astray; they act promiscuously in disobedience to   their God.

Cross References

Hosea 5:4

Their actions do not allow them to return to their God, for a spirit of promiscuity is among them, and they do not know the  Lord.

Jeremiah 2:27

say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’ For they have turned their back to me and not their face, yet in their time of disaster  they beg, ‘Rise up and save us! ’

Habakkuk 2:19

Woe to him who says to wood: Wake up! or to mute stone: Come alive! Can it teach? Look! It may be plated with gold and silver, yet there is no breath  in it at all.

Deuteronomy 31:16

The Lord said to Moses, ‘You are about to rest with your ancestors,  and these people will soon prostitute themselves with the foreign gods  of the land they are entering. They will abandon me  and break the covenant  I have made with them.

Numbers 15:39

These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the Lord’s commands and obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart  and your own eyes.

Micah 2:11

If a man comes and utters empty lies    – ‘I will preach to you about wine and beer’   – he would be just the preacher for this people!

Hosea 9:1

Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly as the nations do, for you have acted promiscuously,  leaving your God. You love the wages of a prostitute on every grain threshing-floor.

Ezekiel 21:21

For the king of Babylon stands at the split in the road, at the fork of the two roads, to practise divination: he shakes the arrows, consults the idols, and observes the liver.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both stupid and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

2 Chronicles 21:13

but have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel,  have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves like the house of Ahab  prostituted itself, and also have killed your brothers,  your father’s family, who were better than you,

Leviticus 20:5

then I will turn against that man and his family, and cut off from their people both him and all who follow  him in prostituting  themselves with Molech.

Leviticus 17:7

They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat-demons  that they have prostituted  themselves with. This will be a permanent statute  for them throughout their generations.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria will not save us, we will not ride on horses, and we will no longer proclaim, “Our gods! ” to the work of our hands. For the fatherless receives compassion in you.’

Judges 18:5

Then they said to him, ‘Please enquire of God  for us to determine if we will have a successful journey.’

2 Kings 17:7

This disaster happened because the people of Israel sinned against the Lord their God who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt  and because they worshipped  other gods.

Jeremiah 23:13

Among the prophets of Samaria I saw something disgusting: They prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.

Ezekiel 20:32

‘ “When you say, ‘Let’s be like the nations, like the clans of other countries, serving wood and stone,’  what you have in mind will never happen.

Hosea 6:10

I have seen something horrible  in the house of Israel: Ephraim’s promiscuity is there;  Israel is defiled.