Hosea 4:12

Modern English Version

My people seek counsel from their wood, and their staff informs them. For the spirit of harlotry has led them astray, and they have played the whore in defiance of their God.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:7

This happened because the Israelites had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had feared other gods

2 Chronicles 21:13

but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into whoredom, as the house of Ahab led Israel into whoredom, and also have killed your brothers, those of your father’s house, who were better than you,

Psalm 106:39

Thus were they defiled by their works and played the whore by their deeds.

Psalm 73:27

For behold, those who are far from You shall perish; You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to You.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are altogether unthinking and foolish; the wooden idol is worthless instruction.

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. But in the time of their trouble they will say, “Arise and save us.”

Jeremiah 23:13

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

Ezekiel 20:32

That which comes into your mind shall not come about when you say, “We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.”

Ezekiel 21:21

For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: He shakes the arrows, he consults the images, he looks in the liver.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria will not save us, we will not ride on horses. We will no longer say, ‘Our God,’ to the work of our hands. In You the orphan finds mercy.”

Hosea 5:4

Their deeds do not allow them to return to their God; for a spirit of harlotry is in their midst, and they do not know the Lord.

Hosea 6:10

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

Hosea 9:1

Do not rejoice, O Israel! Do not exult like the peoples, for you have played the whore departing from your God. You have loved a prostitute’s wages on every threshing floor.

Leviticus 17:7

They shall no more offer their sacrifices to goat demons, after whom they have acted like whores. This shall be a perpetual statute for them throughout their generations.

Leviticus 20:5

then I will set My face against that man and against his family; and I will cut them off from their people, both him and those who follow after him as whores after Molech.

Micah 2:11

If a man, going about vapidly and deceitfully, lies, “I will preach for you wine and beer,” he would be just the preacher for this people.

Habakkuk 2:19

Woe to him who says to the wood, “Awake!” To the silent stone, “Arise!” Can it teach? It is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it.

Numbers 15:39

And it will be for you a tassel, and you will see it, and you will remember all the commandments of the Lord, and you will do them, and you will not follow the lust of your own heart and your own eyes.

Deuteronomy 31:16

The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise up and begin to prostitute themselves after the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they are going to be among them, and will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.

Judges 18:5

They said to him, “Please ask God if we may know whether our mission will be a success as we go to do it.”