Hosea 4:12

Tree of Life Version

My people consult their wooden idol and their divining rod informs them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have been a prostitute— out from under their God.

Cross References

Hosea 5:4

They will not give up their evil deeds to return to their God. For a spirit of prostitution is in them, and Adonai they have not known.

Jeremiah 2:27

They say to wood, ‘You are my father’ and to a stone, ‘You birthed me.’ They have turned their back to Me and not their face. Yet when they are in trouble they say, ‘Rise up and save us!’

Habakkuk 2:19

Oy to one who says to wood: “Awake!” To a dumb stone: “Rouse yourself!” Can it teach? Look, it is plated with gold and silver, but it has no spirit within it.

Deuteronomy 31:16

Adonai said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will abandon Me and break My covenant that I cut with them.

Numbers 15:39

It will be your own tzitzit—so whenever you look at them, you will remember all the mitzvot of Adonai and do them and not go spying out after your own hearts and your own eyes, prostituting yourselves.

Micah 2:11

If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood speaks lies—“I will prophesy for you of wine and strong drink”—then he would be a spokesman of this people.

Hosea 9:1

Do not rejoice, O Israel, do not celebrate like the peoples— for so you have gone whoring away from your God. You have loved a prostitute’s pay, on every grain-threshing-floor.

Ezekiel 21:21

Slash to the right, turn to the left—wherever your blade is meeting!

Jeremiah 10:8

They are totally stupid and foolish. Discipline is useless—it’s wood!

Psalm 73:27

For behold, those far from You will perish. You put an end to all who like a harlot are unfaithful to You.

2 Chronicles 21:13

but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, leading Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into prostitution just as the house of Ahab committed prostitution and you have also slain your brothers—your own family, who were better than you—

Leviticus 20:5

then I will set My face against that man and against his family, and will cut him off, along with all who play the prostitute after him with Molech, from among their people.

Leviticus 17:7

They are no longer to offer their sacrifices to the goat-demons after which they play the prostitute. This will be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.

Psalm 106:39

So they defiled themselves by their deeds, and prostituted themselves by their practices.

Hosea 14:3

Take words with you and return to Adonai. Say to Him: “Take away all iniquity, and accept what is good, so we may repay with offerings of our lips:

Judges 18:5

“Please inquire of God,” they said to him, “so we may know whether our way that we are going will be successful.”

2 Kings 17:7

Now it was so because the men of Israel had sinned against Adonai their God, who 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

Moreover, I have seen unseemliness in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied by Baal, and led My people Israel astray.

Ezekiel 20:32

What comes up in your mind will not happen at all, when you say, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the families of the countries, worshiping wood and stone.’

Hosea 6:10

In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim’s prostitution is there, Israel has become unclean.