Hosea 4:17 KJV — MannaFest

Hosea 4:17

Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.

KJV

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ASV

Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.

WEB

Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!

YLT

Joined to idols is Ephraim, let him alone.

DBT

— Ephraim is joined to idols: leave him alone.

About this book

Old Testament

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Hosea — A prophet commanded to marry an unfaithful wife — his marriage becomes the sermon. Fourteen chapters on covenant unfaithfulness and a love that will not let Israel go.

Author: Hosea son of Beeri (1:1)
Date: Ministry c. 755–715 BC — the decades leading up to the 722 BC fall of the northern kingdom

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Cross-references

21 verses on the floor

Romans 1:24
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Psalms 81:12
So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
Acts 7:42
Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
Mark 8:13
And he left them, and entering into the ship again departed to the other side.
Revelation 22:11
He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

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There are two instances given of their spiritual whoredom, in both which they gave that honour to their idols which is due to God only:-- (1.) They consulted them as oracles, and used those arts of divination which they had learned from their idolatrous priests (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

1Co 6:16, 17). idols--The Hebrew means also "sorrows," "pains," implying the pain which idolatry brings on its votaries. let him alone--Leave him to himself. Let him reap the fruits of his own perverse choice; his case is desperate; say nothing to him (compare Jer 7:16). Here Ho 4:15 shows the address is to Judah, to avoid the contagion of Israel's bad example.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Ephraim - The children of Ephraim were numerous and potent, and here put for the whole ten tribes. Let him alone - He is obstinate, as such, throw him up.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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