Hosea 4:14 BSB — MannaFest

Hosea 4:14

I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.

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ASV

I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go apart with harlots, and they sacrifice with the prostitutes; and the people that doth not understand shall be overthrown.

KJV

I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Hosea 4:14 (420)

"Therefore, your daughters will prostitute themselves, and your daughters-in-law will commit adultery. I will not punish your daughters when they fornicate or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, because they themselves consorted with prostitutes and offered sacrifices with effeminate men, and the people who do not understand will be punished." LXX: "Therefore your daughters will prostitute themselves, and your brides will commit adultery; I will not punish them for prostitution nor for adultery, because they went to prostitutes and arranged pagan temple rites with sacred prostitutes; a senseless people they are."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredoms, nor your spouses when they commit adultery,.... Either not punish them at all, so that they shall go on in sin, and to a greater degree, to the disgrace and reproach of their parents and husbands; or not as yet, or not so severely in them, because it was by their example they were led into it. Jarchi's note is very impertinent, that God threatens them with the disuse of the bitter waters of jealousy.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

I will not punish - Why should you be stricken any more; ye will revolt more and more. When God, in judgment, removes his judgments, the case of that people is desperate. While there is hope, there is correction. Themselves are separated - There is a reference here to certain debaucheries which should not be described.

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Original language & word study

22 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לֹֽא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
אֶפְק֨וֹד	'ef.Kod	I will visit [judgment]	H6485 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
בְּנוֹתֵיכֶ֜ם	be.no.tei.Khem	daughters your	H1323 →
כִּ֣י	ki	if	H3588 →
תִזְנֶ֗ינָה	tiz.Nei.nah	they prostitute themselves	H2181 →
וְעַל־	ve.'al-	and on	H5921 →
כַּלּֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙	ka.lo.tei.Khem	brides your	H3618 →
כִּ֣י	ki	if	H3588 →
תְנָאַ֔פְנָה	te.na.'Af.nah	they commit adultery	H5003 →
כִּי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
הֵם֙	hem	they [masc]	H1992 →
עִם־	'im-	with	H5973 →
הַזֹּנ֣וֹת	ha.zo.Not	the prostitutes	H2181 →
יְפָרֵ֔דוּ	ye.fa.Re.du	they go apart	H6504 →
וְעִם־	ve.'im-	and with	H5973 →
הַקְּדֵשׁ֖וֹת	ha.ke.de.Shot	the cult prostitutes	H6948 →
יְזַבֵּ֑חוּ	ye.za.Be.chu	they sacrifice	H2076 →
וְעָ֥ם	ve.'Am	and a people	H5971 →
לֹֽא־	lo'-	[which] not	H3808 →
יָבִ֖ין	ya.Vin	it understands	H995 →
יִלָּבֵֽט׃	yi.la.Vet	it will be ruined	H3832 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ephesians 4:18
They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
leads to
- Matthew 13:15
  For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts,…
- Ephesians 2:12
  remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
- Romans 1:21–23
  For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
- John 12:40
  “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.”
Through
1 Corinthians 6:16
Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”
leads to
- Genesis 2:24
  For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
- Ephesians 5:31
  “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
- Mark 10:8
  and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
Through
Hebrews 12:8
If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.
leads to
- Hebrews 12:6
  For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”

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02Original language & word study

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Where the connections lead

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06About Hosea

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

Related verses

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About Hosea