Hosea 4:12

The English Standar Version

My people inquire of a piece of wood, and their walking staff gives them oracles. For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray, and they have left their God to play the whore.

Cross References

Hosea 5:4

Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not the LORD.

Jeremiah 2:27

who say to a tree, 'You are my father,' and to a stone, 'You gave me birth.' For they have turned their back to me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble they say, 'Arise and save us!'

Habakkuk 2:19

Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake; to a silent stone, Arise! Can this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it.

Deuteronomy 31:16

And the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them.

Numbers 15:39

And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, to do them, not to follow[5] after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after.

Micah 2:11

If a man should go about and utter wind and lies, saying, "I will preach to you of wine and strong drink," he would be the preacher for this people!

Hosea 9:1

Rejoice not, O Israel! Exult not like the peoples; for you have played the whore, forsaking your God. You have loved a prostitute's wages on all threshing floors.

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 teraphim;[8] he looks at the liver.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!

Psalm 73:27

For behold, those who are far from you shall perish; you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you.

2 Chronicles 21:13

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

Leviticus 20:5

then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in whoring after Molech.

Leviticus 17:7

So they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to goat demons, after whom they whore. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.

Psalm 106:39

Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses; and we will say no more, 'Our God,' to the work of our hands. In you the orphan finds mercy."

Judges 18:5

And they said to him, "Inquire of God, please, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed."

2 Kings 17:7

And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had 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

In the prophets of Samaria I saw an unsavory thing: they prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.

Ezekiel 20:32

"What is in your mind shall never happen -- the thought, 'Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, and worship wood and stone.'

Hosea 6:10

In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim's whoredom is there; Israel is defiled.