Hosea 4:12

God's Word

My people ask their wooden idols for help. A piece of wood tells them what to do. A spirit of prostitution leads them astray. They commit adultery by giving themselves to other gods.

Cross References

Hosea 5:4

“The wicked things that the people have done keep them from returning to their God. They have a spirit of prostitution, and they don’t know the Lord.

Jeremiah 2:27

You call wood your father. You call stone your mother. You’ve turned your backs, not your faces, to me. But when you’re in trouble, you ask me to come and rescue you.

Habakkuk 2:19

‘How horrible it will be for the one who says to a piece of wood, “Wake up!” and to a stone that cannot talk, “Get up!” ’ Can that thing teach ⌞anyone⌟? Just look at it! It’s covered with gold and silver, but there’s absolutely no life in it.”

Deuteronomy 31:16

The Lord said to Moses, “Soon you are going to lie down in death with your ancestors. When these people enter the land and are living among the foreigners there, they will chase after foreign gods as though they were prostitutes. They will abandon me and reject the promise  I made to them.

Numbers 15:39

Whenever you look at the threads in the tassel, you will remember all the Lord’s commands and obey them. Then you won’t do whatever you want and go after whatever you see, as if you were chasing after prostitutes.

Micah 2:11

Liars and frauds may go around and say, “We will preach to you about wine and liquor.” They would be just the type of preacher you want.

Hosea 9:1

Israel, don’t rejoice. Don’t celebrate as other nations do. You have been unfaithful to your God. You have sold sex on every threshing floor.

Ezekiel 21:21

The king of Babylon will stop where the roads branch off, where there is a fork in the road. Then he will look for omens. He will shake some arrows, ask his household gods for help, and examine animal livers.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are complete idiots. They learn nonsense from wooden idols.

Psalm 73:27

Without a doubt, those who are far from you will die. You destroy all who are unfaithful to you.

2 Chronicles 21:13

Instead, you have followed the ways of the kings of Israel. You, like Ahab’s family, have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to chase after foreign gods as if they were prostitutes. You have killed your brothers, your father’s family. Your brothers were better than you.

Leviticus 20:5

I will condemn them and their families. I will exclude them from the people. I will exclude from the people everyone who chases after Molech as if he were a prostitute.

Leviticus 17:7

The people must stop sacrificing to goat idols and chasing after them as though they were prostitutes. This is a permanent law for the people and for future generations.

Psalm 106:39

They became filthy because of what they did. They behaved like prostitutes.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria cannot save us. We won’t ride on horses anymore. We will never again say that the things our hands have made are our gods. You love orphans.”

Judges 18:5

They said to him, “Please find out from God if our journey will be successful.”

2 Kings 17:7

The Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them out of Egypt ⌞and rescued them⌟ from the power of Pharaoh (the king of Egypt). They worshiped other gods

Jeremiah 23:13

“⌞Say this⌟ about the prophets of Samaria: I saw something disgusting. The prophets of Samaria prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.

Ezekiel 20:32

What you have in mind will never happen. You think that you want to be like other nations, like the different people in other countries. You want to serve wood and stone.

Hosea 6:10

“I have seen horrible things in the nation of Israel. Ephraim is acting like a prostitute, and Israel is unclean.