Hosea 4:4

Legacy Standard Bible

¶Yet let no man contend, and let no man offer reproof; Indeed, your people are like those who contend with the priest.

Cross References

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to perish from the priest, nor counsel to the wise man, nor the divine word to the prophet! Come on and let us strike at him with our tongue, and let us give no heed to any of his words.”

Ezekiel 3:26

Moreover, I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth so that you will be mute and cannot be a man who reproves them, for they are a rebellious house.

Hosea 4:17

Ephraim is joined to idols; Let him alone.

Amos 5:10

¶They hate him who reproves in the gate, And they abhor him who speaks with integrity.

Amos 5:13

Therefore at such a time the one with insight keeps silent, for it is an evil time.

Amos 6:10

Then one’s uncle, or the one who burns his bones, will lift him up to bring out his bones from the house, and he will say to the one who is in the innermost part of the house, “Is anyone else with you?” And that one will say, “No one.” Then he will answer, “Keep quiet. For the name of Yahweh is not to be mentioned.”

Deuteronomy 17:12

And the man who acts presumptuously by not listening to the priest who stands there to minister to Yahweh your God, or to the judge, that man shall die; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel.